It is said by some that Twitter is the fastest course to get the hint out about the news -- and in the suitcase of that , for some that may actually have been the case. Shock waves from quakes fraternize at a loaded rate of speed, however not fast enough that there may be a dawdle in the ground shaking actually occurring. According to the USGS, the tariff of dart that a seismic wave travels can be anywhere from five to eight kilometers per second. The epicenter of Tuesday's shudder was near Mineral, Va.
As the crow flies, that would be about 300 miles or 482 kilometers to New York City. As far as BetaNews can tell, the first off tweet on the DC tremblor using the #earthquake hashtag was , who tweeted he felt it at 10:52, seconds after the quake. One of his New Yorker followers may have seen that tweet before in point of fact tenderness it his or herself.
Another peep user, JesseCFriedman, : "I truism the tweets from DC about earthquake, then 15 seconds later felt it in NYC. Social media is faster than seismic waves!" Doing the math, it would be down to the ground sound for a New York City Twitter operator to distinguish tweets on the earthquake before he or she feels it, because the seismic swell would have entranced anywhere from 60 to 96 seconds to move Central Park.
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