Rare but only 5.8 quake generates as much Twitter traffic as Japan's devastating 9.0

From the official Twitter account, on, you guessed it, Twitter: "Within a minute of today's earthquake, there were more than 40,000 earthquake-related Tweets. And, we hit about 5,500 Tweets per second (TPS). For context, this TPS is more than Osama Bin Laden's death and on par with the Japanese quake."