Dynamic Mapping of How Fukushima Influenced Tweets
Data via – Webnode.com
Map created by Vit Vrba and Dr. Gerhard Wotawa
Fukushima's milestones
March 11, 2011 A 9.0 magnitude earthquake strikes off the coast of Japan. The earthquake triggered an extremely destructive tsunami with waves of up to 37.9 meters. (more)
March 11, 2011 – 177 million tweets were sent, while the average number of tweets is 140 million per day. (more)
March 12, 2011 A massive explosion rocks the power station Fukushima (more)
March 12, 2011 572,000 new Twitter accounts created. The average number of new accounts per day over the last month is 460,000. (more)
March 15, 2011 Seven of Germany's 17 nuclear power stations were shut down (more)
March 18, 2011 Radioactive cloud from Japan headed for U.S. west coast (more)
March 23, 2011 Radioactive cloud reached Europe (more, more, more)
March 23, 2011 Fukushima became the most expensive natural catastrophe in history, reaching $309 billion (Hurricane Katrina costs $81 billion)
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April 5, 2011 Radioactive water from Fukushima NPP was dumped into the Pacific ocean (more)
April 6, 2011 Twitter reached 277, 559, 946 users (more)
Read more: http://www.socialintensity.org/#fukushima#ixzz1JcRT22vR
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Authors
VRBA Vit 
CEO and founder of Webnode.com. Founded in 2008,
Webnode is a free website builder with 30M unique visitors.
Twitter contact: @vitvrba
WOTAWA Gerhard Mag. Dr., M.A. 
Central Institute for Meteorology and Geodynamics (ZAMG), Division for Data, Methods and Modelling. ZAMG founded in 1851, is Austria's national weather service agency.
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