Voices » earthquake http://voices.allthingsd.com from other Web sites Tue, 24 Nov 2009 01:48:39 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 http://allthingsd.com/theme/images/logo-rss.jpg All Things Digital http://allthingsd.com/ 144 22 Seismologist Forced to Remove Quake Warning From the Internet http://voices.allthingsd.com/20090406/seismologist-forced-to-remove-quake-warning-from-the-internet/ http://voices.allthingsd.com/20090406/seismologist-forced-to-remove-quake-warning-from-the-internet/#comments Mon, 06 Apr 2009 23:30:11 +0000 Andrew LaVallee http://voices.allthingsd.com/?p=10240 By Andrew LaVallee, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal

After an earthquake in the Abruzzo region of Italy killed at least 100 people, a local scientist is demanding an apology from authorities and saying that he was forced to take his warnings off the Internet. A week ago, Gioacchino Giuliani, a seismologist at the nearby Gran Sasso National Laboratory, predicted that a large quake could occur soon after several small tremors. According to Reuters, his warning prompted vans with loudspeakers telling residents to leave their homes.

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The fans of microblogging service Twitter, led by head cheerleader Robert Scoble, were all aflutter Monday with the sense that in speedily passing along word of this morning’s earthquake in China, they have participated in a news reporting revolution. Seems Scoble started getting and forwarding tweets from China even as the ground was still shaking, an entire minute or two before the USGS posted preliminary data on location and strength, and more minutes before the bulletins started moving on the news wires.

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