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by hnburnsy 824 days ago
Well since the author did not talk to Google we will not find out by reading this article.
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In their defense, the tectonic plates will have moved a __lot__ before you can expect to get any response from Google support.
Those will be interesting patch notes for google maps

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

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...".

> 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.

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