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T witter is already trending with the news of the earthquake that has hit Northern Illinois. News of the earthquake is spreading faster on Twitter than on traditional news channels. News of the earthquake has sent feelings of shock and fear to some users but there are no reports of any damage. Magnitude 4 is now trending at the number 3 spot and will rise to number 1 in a short while as news of the earthquake spreads. The U.S. Geological Survey has reported an earthquake shook the area near Dekalb, IL at 4:59:34 EST Wednesday morning. According to the  government website , the magnitude was 4.3 and took place 4 miles WNW of Virgil, IL, 5 miles E of Sycamore, IL, 5 miles N of Maple Park, IL, 8 miles ENE of DeKalb, IL, and 48 miles from Chicago. According to USGS, "a magnitude 4.0 eastern U.S. earthquake typically can be felt at many places as far as 60 miles from where it occurred, and it infrequently causes damage near its source. A magnitude 5.5 eastern U.S. earthquake usually c...

The US Geological Survey (USGS) has begun to tap into the popular micro-blogging site Twitter. According to them this is one of the fastest ways to find out where tremors have hit because as soon as they do people start sharing the news with their friends. What the USGS has done is to launch an official Twitter Earthquake Detection (TED) Program. What the system does is gather Tweets from across Twitter that mention the word earthquake either in English or other foreign languages. Compile all of these Tweets together and Map them. It is then easy to start following people Tweeting about earthquakes according to their Geo-location. The Tweets which are not location based will be skipped as the system wants to pinpoint where the earthquake is taking place in real-time An original post by Sociolatte