Twitter Reaction to Earthquake Comes to Life on Animated Map [VIDEO]

Eric Fischer created this fascinating animation, showing what an earthquake looks like through the lens of Twitter. It's a tweetquake!

Key: Green dots are tweets about the earthquake, and gray dots are tweets about anything else. The video covers 12 minutes with each frame of the video representing one second in real time.

Fischer says in his Flickr comments that he only included tweets with geotags, so this represents just a fraction of the earthquake-related tweets sent on Tuesday when the quake shook up the eastern seaboard.

Let's hope Fischer fires up his Twitter animation routine for the looming Hurricane Irene, which is sure to light up the map, whether it makes landfall or not.