Unconfirmed reports say a tsunami wave has hit the Juan Fernandez Islands in the last 1 hour, more tsunamis may be coming to 50 other countries.  A warning is currently in effect at the time of this writing.  If you are living in the Pacific or Hawaii see our previous tsunami post for important information and also check the ...

Two earthquakes in the last 12 hours have hit and news agencies have been slow to report.  Of course, twitter was and is right on top of the issue, getting the word out to twitter users via tweets. 

The first 6.9 magnitude earthquake hit Tokyo's Southern islands at 20:31 GMT on Friday.  The quake happened off the coast of Okinawa island at a depth of 6.2 miles (10km).  The Meteorological Agency predicted and issued tsunami warnings.  There turned out to be minimal damage, no deaths and the tsunami warning was later lifted. 

Twitter Inc. has launched a mobile version of their Twitter service. It presumably is meant for mobile devices to be able to access the twitter service directly through the web interface without any 3rd party client needed. We briefly checked it out and it looks to be a pared down version of Twitter formatted for mobile phones.  Here are some screenshots of the new service (taken from a Mac on Firefox 2). 

Twitter Mobile - Login screen 

Twitter Mobile - Logged in and sending messages

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