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This morning an earthquake with a magnitude of 7.8 struck off the coast of Alaska. A tsunami warning (now cancelled) has been issued.
I asked myself simple questions:
- Who was the first to tweet?
- What is happening on the ground when a tsunami warning is issued?
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I asked myself simple questions:
- Who was the first to tweet?
- What is happening on the ground when a tsunami warning is issued?
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At 8:21 AM, the National Weather Service @NWS_NTWC for the continental U.S. and Canada issued the Tsunami warning https://twitter.com/NWS_NTWC/status/1285822164013207552?s=20
At the same time they published this event picture https://twitter.com/NWS_NTWC/status/1285822354170368001?s=20
At 8:35 AM, @seismo_steve, seismologist at @imperialcollege published this detailled map https://twitter.com/seismo_steve/status/1285825658036326400
1 min after, at 8:36 AM, @MorganKIRO7, chief Meteorologist, KIRO 7 News, CBS Seattle tweeted about it https://twitter.com/MorganKIRO7/status/1285826130394611712
1 min after, at 8:37 AM, Tyler who lived in Kodiak AK published this video https://twitter.com/Tyler82092707/status/1285826396325949441
At 8:51 AM, @stevenjgibbons, geoscientist, tweeted about "the data of the closest broadband stations clip - here station AK.CHN of the Alaskan network @AKearthquake - data openly available through @IRIS_EPO" https://twitter.com/stevenjgibbons/status/1285829865506209793
At 8:58 AM, Jascha Polet @CPPGeophysics, Professor of Geophysics at Cal Poly Pomona, seismologist tweeted about the earthquake https://twitter.com/CPPGeophysics/status/1285831478337662976
At 9:14 AM, so less than 1 hour after the first tsunami warning, this is what the headlights of evacuation of the Spit in Homer AK looked like https://twitter.com/DAKGirl/status/1285835591901302790
At 9:15 AM, the tsumani sirens were blaring in Homer https://twitter.com/_drfreeze/status/1285835783631302657
At 9:30 AM, sirens were blasting and helicopters were in the air. The impact was planned at 12:05 (local time) https://twitter.com/TheCoastiemater/status/1285839544558870528
At 9:54 AM, @JoeVigil, Anchor and reporter for KTVA TV, tweeted this video https://twitter.com/JoeVigil/status/1285845780683608065
At 10:37 AM, he tweeted another video https://twitter.com/JoeVigil/status/1285856561387024384
You feeling a little bit anxious after reading this thread? This is totally normal 
This time, this is an happy ending, the tsunami warnings has been cancelled.
This time, this is an happy ending, the tsunami warnings has been cancelled.
Twitter is full of very skilled and passionate people. If you are interested by earthquakes, especially in this area, follow all the mentionned people in this thread.
This is the end of this thread, I hope you like it
This is the end of this thread, I hope you like it
