January 2024 Current Events: I Hate This Year Already

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The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Internet VFW > January 2024 Current Events: I Hate This Year Already

Wombot: Sep 11, 2001

There's a ton of misinformation circulating in Twitter from random accounts posting videos from the March 2011 quake and tsunami. Keep an eye out if you're still trying to use Twitter for disaster tracking.

Eta: and the stupid loving API changes mean legit accounts are getting rate limited https://bsky.app/profile/xunlingau.bsky.social/post/3khvwr565gm2b

Wombot fucked around with this message at 10:47 on Jan 1, 2024

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Wombot: Sep 11, 2001

Spoggerific posted:

The warning app I use living in Japan looks like this when a large enough earthquake happens:

This is the NERV app, right?

I'm seeing on NHK and the BBC liveblog that the tsunami alerts have been downgraded. Does that mean no tsunamis struck and if any do they will be 1m or less, or that any subsequent tsunamis will be less than 1m at this point?

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