Earthquake: Real-Time Results On Google Make Up For Lack Of Other Content

Jan 7, 2010 at 2:49pm ET by Greg Sterling

There was a small earthquake this morning near San Jose, California. According to the USGS, which now shows “real-time” information, the quake was relatively small: magnitude 4.1.

Last year Google launched an Earthquake OneBox; however that OneBox didn’t catch this quake. Google is saved by integration of Twitter results (see below), which did report it:

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Greg Sterling is a Contributing Editor at Search Engine Land. He writes a personal blog, Screenwerk, about media and the connection between online and offline. He also posts at Internet2Go, which is focused on the mobile Internet. Follow him @gsterling.

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