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Earth Permanently Deformed After Earthquakes in Chile, Shows Study

Earth Permanently Deformed After Earthquakes in Chile, Shows Study

By Sean Patterson April 29, 2013

A new study by geologists at Cornell University has shown that earthquakes can leave the Earth deformed. Cornell geologist Richard Allmendinger told LiveScience that strong earthquakes in Chile have left permanent cracks in the surface of the Earth. The findings …

Twitter: We Are Faster Than An Earthquake Twitter: We Are Faster Than An Earthquake
By · September 1, 2011 · 4 Comments

Twitter’s new promotion is that their service moves faster than an earthquake. The impetus for this little video posted on their YouTube channel is obviously the 5.8 magnitude earthquake that hit the east coast late last month. The quake, centered …

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Earthquake Hits East Coast Earthquake Hits East Coast
By · August 23, 2011

Earthquakes have been hitting various places across the United States today. A quake of a reported 5.8 magnitude hit the east coast. According to The Weather Channel, the quake’s epicenter was in Virginia and reports claim that it was felt …

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Earthquake, Tsunami Talk Takes Over Web
By · March 11, 2011 · 5 Comments

The 8.9 magnitude earthquake that struck Japan and caused a powerful tsunami has captured the Web’s full attention.  This morning, nine out of the ten trending topics on Twitter relate to the natural disasters, the top Google Trends look rather …

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Christchurch, New Zealand Earthquake – People Finder Tool Released by Google
By · February 22, 2011 · 1 Comment

Google has launched a people search tool to help people affected by the earthquake in Christchurch, New Zealand. With the tool, users have to options:

- I’m looking for someone
- I have information about someone

The tool can be accessed here. 

Google allows people to embed the tool on their own sites as such:

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Gov’t Agency Turns To Twitter For Earthquake-Tracking
By · January 8, 2010

The fact that reports of earthquakes (or at least messages reading "EARTHQUAKE!!!") are quick to surface on Twitter is a key reason many people first recognized the site as useful.  Now, the U.S. Geological Survey has decided to have a closer look, unveiling the Twitter Earthquake Detector.

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Twitter Used To Report Earthquake
By · May 12, 2008

Twitter doesn’t always work well; its frequent outages have earned it all sorts of negative attention.  It has at least partially redeemed itself, though, as Twitter was one of the first sites on which news of the earthquake in China appeared.

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Google Products Used To Track Nevada Earthquakes
By · April 29, 2008 · 3 Comments

WebProNews is based in Kentucky, where we’re relatively safe from many types of natural disasters.  We felt something between a large rumble and a small rattle following Illinois’s earthquake, however, which makes it more interesting on a personal level that Google Maps is being used to track other recent quakes.

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Google Delves Into Volcanoes, Earthquakes
By · August 28, 2007

The last post on the Official Google CPG Blog provides a “Back to School Recap.”  The Official Google Data APIs Blog informs readers about “Calendar Gadgets via Gdata.”  And that’s all fine and well.  But over at the Google LatLong Blog, they’re keeping us clear of lava flows.

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In The Newsletter
Ask Storms In And Shakes Up Search
By · September 29, 2006

Updates to results appearing on Ask.com for weather- and earthquake-related queries have provided more visual information and several new features.

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