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Another cool and actually useful application for Twitter’s location feature<\/a>: Detecting, tracking, and reporting earthquakes.<\/p>\n The USGS is reportedly<\/a> developing a system that scans Twitter for conversation about earthquakes, mapping them using Twitter’s new geolocation data.<\/p>\n Timothy B. Hurst, EcoPolitology<\/a>: The energy behind that kind of behavior is what is behind the Twitter Earthquake Detection (USGSted<\/a>) project [USGS seismologist Dr. Paul] Earle is heading up. TED uses the Twitter social networking platform to collect real-time, earthquake-related messages from anywhere around the globe. “For earthquakes in sparsely instrumented regions, these detections could provide an initial heads up that an earthquake may have occurred,” explains Earle.<\/p>\n TED uses an application programming interface that aggregates tweets based on keywords like “earthquake” and “tremor” to pull tweets about a particular earthquake into a database. Then the USGS generates an e-mail report containing the magnitude, location, depth below the surface, number of tweets about the earthquake broken down by their location, and text of the first 40 or 50 tweets.<\/p>\n Continue reading ><\/a><\/p>\n Join the conversation about this story »<\/a><\/p>\n See Also:<\/b><\/p>\n Another cool and actually useful application for Twitter’s location feature: Detecting, tracking, and reporting earthquakes. The USGS is reportedly developing a system that scans Twitter for conversation about earthquakes, mapping them using Twitter’s new geolocation data. Timothy B. Hurst, EcoPolitology: The energy behind that kind of behavior is what is behind the Twitter Earthquake Detection […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":440,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-155722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155722","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/440"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=155722"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155722\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
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