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Kazakh Quake Sends Tremors through Twitter

Categories: Central Asia & Caucasus, Kazakhstan, Citizen Media

After an earthquake [1] hit southeastern Kazakhstan yesterday, hundreds of the country's netizens took to Twitter to tell the rest of the world about what they had experienced. Blogger Olzhas Salmurza has collected [2] [ru] the most interesting tweets from all over Kazakhstan. Ravil Abdulov reports [3] [ru] that Twitter has also helped spread rumors about the ‘imminent’ new quake.