Haha, I think it's a fine idea to have an emoji for earthquakes, but would it actually help? The article talks about how it could save precious seconds. What, is everybody supposed to memorize some combination of symbols that would make the earthquake emoji? That doesn't sounds very practical of even any faster than typing earthquake. Typically, when you want to use an less common emoji, you need to open all of them and search through them to find the one you want. This would 100% take more time that just typing the word "earthquake". Another one of the arguments in the article is that it would make it easier for scientists to track earthquakes all over the world, as emojis are a universal language. Right... Like it would be very difficult to just make a list of all the translations for the word "earthquake" and monitor those. Pretty lame article, BBC, if you ask me.