Whittlings

I would have blogged earlier, but we’ve just spent half an hour sitting around hammering refresh on BBC news.

That was pretty pretty awesome. I was sitting here, and felt my desk start to vibrate under my knee. I thought I was getting the jitters, but when the whole room shook when I removed my knee; it became clear that it wasn’t.

Looking out in the corridor and seeing everyone coming out with looks of shock and amusement on their faces was also quite neat.

BBC. USGS. On the off chance that you haven’t seen them.

BBC News online was particularly fun. Within ten minutes, the news articles on quakes in the past 6 years came to the top of most read pages on the site. Over the past 40 minutes, traffic to news.bbc.co.uk has increased 43%.