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0 pointsbluefirebrand2y ago0 comments

Those will be interesting patch notes for google maps

"we removed most of the gulf islands, part of BC, Washington, Oregon, and California" ...

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At least that's guaranteed to be extremely far in the future.

Vs. "we removed Naples, and most other south-central Italian cities, due to the recent VEI 8 eruption of the Campe Flegree caldera complex...".

PaulDavisThe1st2y ago

> At least that's guaranteed to be extremely far in the future.

a subduction zone quake in the PNW is already overdue (they appear to happen regularly with a periodicity of 3-600 years). The famous Atlantic article from several years ago made it clear that it can be expected at any time now.

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