Can Studying Tweets Lead to Faster Earthquake Recovery?

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Can Studying Tweets Lead to Faster Earthquake Recovery?
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Twitter (http://mashable.com/category/twitter/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss) has always been a place to talk about what's happening around you — even if what's happening is an earthquake

In March, an early morning earthquake (http://mashable.com/2014/03/17/tweets-los-angeles-earthquake/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss) in Los Angeles resulted in a Twitter storm of sleepy, yet humorous, tweets. That type of real-time sharing is the basis of new research out of Stanford University, where researchers recently tested Twitter's ability to accurately detect ground-shaking intensity, a metric displayed using visual graphs k**wn as ShakeMaps

See also: 10 Must-Follow Breaking News Accounts on Twitter (http://mashable.com/2013/04/08/breaking-news-twitter/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss)


In other words, the real-time tweets led scientists to wonder — can those tweeting about an Earthquake help researchers learn more about it? Read more... (http://mashable.com/2014/05/02/twitter-earthquake-recovery/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss)

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