Drop, Cover, and Hold On ? Then Tweet
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?Did you feel it"? Early yesterday morning, NASA blasted a new Mars rover into space from Florida?s Cape Canaveral. The vehicle, named ?Perseverance,? was designed and assembled at NASA?s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) just outside Los Angeles, and 20 minutes before lift-off, as reporters interviewed engineer MiMi Aung, an earthquake hit.
?They panned over to JPL, and she said, ?Sorry, we just had an earthquake here,? and she sounded quite nervous,? says Celeste Labedz, a doctoral student of geophysics at the California Institute of Technology who was watching the NASA livestream while visiting family in Nebraska. ?My first instinct was: Time for Twitter.?
In Los Angeles, Twitter is the first ? and best ? place to confirm that the shaking you felt was actually an earthquake. (Maybe it?s the fear that comes with living in earthquake country, but it?s surprisingly easy to confuse the rumble of a truck or the thud of construction equipment with the sudden slip of a fault miles below the Earth?s surface). Like a badge of pride, everyone who felt it, no matter the hour, will shout into Twitter: EARTHQUAKE!!! They?ll describe what the shaking felt like in their neighborhoods. They?ll try to make you laugh with quips about how unprepared they were or DJ Kahled memes. Journalists and scientists like Labedz will log on to report the epicenter and the magnitude, and they?ll all ask ?Did you feel it"? They?ll also politely correc...
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