#EQNZ – A Social Timetable
Well, this isn’t going to be the definitive paper on the subject, but more a collection of facts and details.
In doing some research for an upcoming presentation for work, I decided to reference some of the data that came out of the Feb 22, 6.3 Christchurch earthquake.
This is also for showing that traditional media as a resource for reaching out and spreading the word about an event has now to deal with the implications of what is to all intents and purposes a real-time collaborative series of platforms, that work unfiltered by traditional rules.
And to save other people the trouble of trawling for the data, here is what I have found so far:
Times in UTC:
Quake: 2011 February 21 23:51:42 UTC: ( Source: USGS website )
Duration: 37 seconds (Source: Rebuild Christchurch )
23:52:19 UTC :Final time Post Earthquake:
(Timestamp on images in AEDT – Images link through to source tweet)
Feb 21 23:52:42 +0000 2011 First Tweet:
23 seconds after the quake.
(found by backtracking several users timeline to point of tweet to the timeof the quake ) –
Feb 21 23:53:17 +0000 2011 First Tweet Referencing #eqnz:
58 seconds after the quake.
Feb 21 23:53:17 +0000 2011 First Tweet Referencing Earthquake:
(Google Realtime Search)
Feb 21 23:55:47 +0000 2011 First Tweet from one of the 2694 people I follow:
3:28 seconds after the quake
Feb 21 23:55:47 +0000 2011 First Twit Pic:
3:28 seconds after the quake
Feb 21 23:55:47 +0000 2011 First=C2=A0 Twitpic with #eqnz tag:
Feb 21 23:57:37 +0000 2011 First Tweet from @nzstuff
Feb 22 00:06:52 +0000 2011 My First Official Data:
14 Minutes 33 seconds after the quake finished:
(My Tweet via refreshing the USGS website)
Feb 22 00:08:09 +0000 2011 First Confirmation of the Quake Data ( Tweet ):
15minutes 50 seconds after the quake finished.
Feb 22 00:08:55 +0000 2011 First Tweet from Australian News Source @abcnews
15minutes 55 seconds after the quake finished.
First Video on Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Dqt0iIHXFnR0 ( Details still to confirm )
Feb 22 00:18:00 +0000 2011 Wikipedia
25minutes 41 seconds after the quake:
Page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christchurch_Earthquake,_2011
(Source: Revision History )
Feb 22 12:15:49 +0000 2011 Official Christchurch Council Twitter Account goes live:
12 Hours, 23 minutes after the quake
By the time the Council come onboard, the rumour mill re blood donations, etc is in full over drive: For over 6 hours there were over 100tweets p/m just on the #eqnz tag.
The time to be prepared is not when the disaster has happened, but now.
Please tell me if I have missed any content, or tweets that should be in this timeline. ( I will update this post when I get more information as well )
