We had over 10 hours in advance when a massive 8.8 earthquake ripped through Chile in South America. Aftershocks are still happening to this minute, some as strong as 6.5 (which is considered an earthquake nonetheless). The entire world on Twitter, ustream.tv, Facebook and CNN/MSNBC was watching – thinking it was going to be the worst. Unfortunately, a tsunami did hit the Hawaiian islands as predicted by a relatively new science from the NOAA Tsunami Center and fortunately, it hasn’t appeared to do any major damage like the devastating tsunami in 2006. What people may not understand is this wasn’t just hype or people wanting it to be a “2012″ end of the world day – rather it was a well orchestrated time lapse of tweets, updates, warnings and live coverage that we have never seen before. Sure, we have CNN and Fox News, but they weren’t even close to being as up to date as actual “contacts” of mine in Hawaii via Twitter, or ustream.tv covering live Hawaiian news channels. My point in this – sure it made it for an interesting day, but honestly, it was the power of social media that has changed the way we watch events and relay information and I find it completely amazing. Here’s a time lapse video of just one bay that was completely filled with the ocean and you can see the first surge of when the tsunami hit. Pretty cool (and thankfully non-destructive).