Everytime something important happens I notice reddit is a better source of getting an aggregate of information than twitter or (sometimes) news outlets.
I found that for the New Zealand earthquakes last week, that Twitter was a better source than Reddit for information that was actually relevant to me as a local.
Relevant reddit thread for this incident.
https://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/5e6jzt/73_magnit...
Also, /u/TheEarthquakeGuy should be posting soon.