Chile Tsunami: after Quake - Live on Twitter
Twitter Live - Live on Twitter
Major earthquake hit Chile 27th February 2010 - magnitude 8.8 earthquake close to the Chilean coast. It triggered a Tsunami that began travelling at several hundred kilometres per hour across the Pacific Ocean. The first waves were expected to Hawaii at 11:19 Hawaii Standard Time but were also travelling along the South America coast. 53 nations were put on alert. Below you can see what people have been saying. If you refresh your browser, it will instantly update. Once again we see the power of social networking sites like Twitter to spread news rapidly around the world, though on this ocaision, most of the messages are rebroadcasts of other media coverage by people many thousands of miles away.
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