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akd on July 30, 2008 | parent | context | favorite | on: SoCal earthquake a powerful reminder of Twitter’...

Depth and accuracy? The first AP article isn't going to have anything except "there was an earthquake." Perhaps they will have the Richter number. They will definitely not have the epicenter or the damage/casualties. It may even be less than 140 characters :)

tlrobinson on July 30, 2008 [–]

The quickest place you'll get the epicenter/magnitude from is USGS:

http://quake.usgs.gov/recenteqs/

You can sign up for SMS alerts too:

https://sslearthquake.usgs.gov/ens/

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