We immediately moved someone supervising social media and our iReports to the Haiti desk "Oh shiet heavy earthquake right now! In Haiti", along with tweeter FutureHaiti who said "Earthquake 7 Richter scale just happening #Haiti." Haitian Fredo Dupoux posted one of the first recorded tweets at 17:00 local time. As major news organizations published quotes from officials on what had happened, eyewitness accounts were being posted to Twitter." But as with many recent natural disasters and emergencies, the extent of the chaos in the impoverished Caribbean island emerged quickly online. The report was picked up a few minutes later as an urgent item by international news agencies with the usual rider of no further details being "immediately available".Īustralia's Sydney Morning Herald reported: "As phone lines went down and darkness fell over Haiti, the full impact of today's massive earthquake was difficult to know. News of the earthquake was broken by the US Geological Survey Department which said that a temblor measuring 7.3 on the Richter scale had hit Haiti at 16:53 local time. As major news organisations published quotes from officials on what had happened, eyewitness accounts were being posted to Twitter
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