What Happens to Google Maps When Tectonic Plates Move?

Re:What Happens to Google Maps When Tectonic Plates Move? by hnburnsy on Saturday March 23, 2024 @06:53PM (#39803599)

Well since the author did not talk to Google we will not find out by reading this article.

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Re:What Happens to Google Maps When Tectonic Plates Move? by amelius on Saturday March 23, 2024 @07:08PM (#39803679)

In their defense, the tectonic plates will have moved a __lot__ before you can expect to get any response from Google support.

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Re:What Happens to Google Maps When Tectonic Plates Move? by bluefirebrand on Saturday March 23, 2024 @09:54PM (#39804489)

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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Re:What Happens to Google Maps When Tectonic Plates Move? by bell-cot on Sunday March 24, 2024 @06:33AM (#39806258)

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...".

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Re:What Happens to Google Maps When Tectonic Plates Move? by PaulDavisThe1st on Sunday March 24, 2024 @11:53AM (#39807972)

> 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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Re:What Happens to Google Maps When Tectonic Plates Move? by hsjsbeebue on Sunday March 24, 2024 @02:12AM (#39805416)

I wont hold my breath becomes I wont cache my lat/lon.

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