Twitter mentions of "earthquake" or "terremoto" (Spanish for earthquake). This is a view zoomed in to a 7 minute period. The earthquake started at 17:33:49. It took around 30 seconds after the Earthquake started before tweets hit Twitter.
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Also, this is showing 5 second intervals. So every 5 seconds there were around 1,000 tweets (a tweet here being a tweet, retweet or quoted tweet) where the words earthquake or terremoto were present within the tweets.
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Curious how this compares to USGS detection time. At a certain distance from the sensor, news is going to propagate through twitter faster than rock.
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