Twitter yesterday published two videos that visualize the activity on the micro-blogging site after the Japanese earthquake and tsunami rocked the country—and the internet along with it.

The two videos were created by information designer Miguel Rios.

The first video depicts the @-replies traveling in and out of Japan as “people reached out to friends, family and loved ones” in the one-hour period after the disaster struck. Replies directed to users in Japan are colored pink, and messages directed at others from Japan are colored yellow:






The second clip displays the worldwide retweets of tweets that originated in Japan in the one-hour period after the earthquake. Original tweets are colored red, and retweets are colored green:



[via Twitter]


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