Edit: Ok, it's not really what happened, but saw last night still very different. You have to imagine the times: at 0.15 clock passed the shake to clock 0.22, the first automated tsunami warning was issued by NOAA, a few minutes later, the message and the first Twitter message boards. This was the first quake, which I was able to follow "live" on the computer. A few minutes nothing happened, then all hell was on Twitter, at least among several dozen agency tickers and Geobloggern. An institution had already modeled by 0.55 clock distribution around the fault plane and proudly showed the pictures, new tsunami warning wobbled on (with the note "is probably not very bad, but better be careful"), which Magnitude were corrected by USGS running up and down until it leveled off at 7.7. It took until about 1.15 clock until a fat CNN "Breaking News" bar fades and had set up a separate page. Gradually, it became clear that the damage will vary extremely low and could all go to bed. Somehow, that was quite exciting. The balance is good: only a few injuries, no deaths.
(courtesy xkcd )
The old text:
Against about 40 minutes it again gerappelt properly, an M 7.8-earthquake, some 200 km north-west of Sibolga, Sumatra, Indonesia . Local Tsunami warning was issued.
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