More seismic activity in Southeast Asia
As if the Indonesians haven't had enough already...
An 8.2 magnitude earthquake struck off the coast of Sumatra Monday close to where a similar quake triggered a tsunami that left nearly 300,000 people dead or missing, the U.S. Geological Survey said. -ABC News
While there is still a good chance of local tsunami activity, experts seem to agree that it won't be anything like what we saw in December. Plus, I am confident people definitely learned from what happened and are choosing to move far away from the beaches.
In any case, this breaking story reminded me of the active role that bloggers took in the last disaster, bringing plenty of "on-the-scene" reporting to audiences that didn't seem to be completely satisfied with the MSM at the time. In many cases, mainstream reporters would only spend time in one area, which obviously limits one's scope of observation. Here's a nice long article from the Asia Times Online that offers a lot of interesting insight into the tsunami bloggers.
So while many top bloggers like Hugh Hewitt and Glenn Reynolds are choosing to largely ignore the story, either because they have more pressing political matters to attend to or because they feel forced to rely largely on the hated mainstream media to fill them in (considering they don't live in Asia), bloggers such as Malaysian Jeff Ooi are top choices to fill in the gap (this guy has detailed maps and everything). It is the World Wide Web after all.
An 8.2 magnitude earthquake struck off the coast of Sumatra Monday close to where a similar quake triggered a tsunami that left nearly 300,000 people dead or missing, the U.S. Geological Survey said. -ABC News
While there is still a good chance of local tsunami activity, experts seem to agree that it won't be anything like what we saw in December. Plus, I am confident people definitely learned from what happened and are choosing to move far away from the beaches.
In any case, this breaking story reminded me of the active role that bloggers took in the last disaster, bringing plenty of "on-the-scene" reporting to audiences that didn't seem to be completely satisfied with the MSM at the time. In many cases, mainstream reporters would only spend time in one area, which obviously limits one's scope of observation. Here's a nice long article from the Asia Times Online that offers a lot of interesting insight into the tsunami bloggers.
So while many top bloggers like Hugh Hewitt and Glenn Reynolds are choosing to largely ignore the story, either because they have more pressing political matters to attend to or because they feel forced to rely largely on the hated mainstream media to fill them in (considering they don't live in Asia), bloggers such as Malaysian Jeff Ooi are top choices to fill in the gap (this guy has detailed maps and everything). It is the World Wide Web after all.
posted by Remz Pokorny @ 4:03 PM
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