Last night Britain experienced its strongest earthquake for 25 years. Nothing to get too excited about in comparison to the experiences other countries have, measuring a quite small 5.2 on the Richter Scale.
My usual source of news is the Sky News website, and they have done a great job over the last 18 months of encouraging uses to submit their own photos, comments and video. There was one comment though that surprised me:
"Within a few minutes, viewers were emailing Sky News Online to tell how their homes had been shaken and uploading their comments and pictures."There is no question that our behaviour has changed as the generation of content by the user (and its subsequent publication) has become more popular, and there is definitely a human trait that means we love sharing with each other.
Interesting anthropological moment though to observe that we have reached the point where one of the first things we do after an earthquake is email or text a news website
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