USGS pipes Twitter into location/time/magnitude of earthquakes | neonascent

USGS pipes Twitter into location/time/magnitude of earthquakes

8 months, 3 weeks ago

The BBC reports that the US Geological Survey (USGS) is making use of Tweets for providing Earthquake data.

Yahoo Pipes has a collection of Twitter pipes available, and could definitely be used to process real-time, geo-coded data from Twitter, Flickr, et al. to give a snapshot of a location.

One Response to “USGS pipes Twitter into location/time/magnitude of earthquakes”

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January 22, 2010 at 4:29 am

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