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They are those people that would have been scribes and chroniclers in the past. They would have lived their days recording censuses, documenting significant events in a kingdom, or record the lives of great individuals. To them information is something that needs to be recorded accurately as possible and done as quickly as one can do so. In a weird way they do the world a service by being ready to jump in and add such information at a moments notice.
Holy crap there is already a Wikipedia article about the earthquake, and it's huge!
Wikipedians are insane