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Platform designed to show emergency alerts on weather, public safety, earthquake and other disasters
Google has launched a new Google Crisis Response project: Google Public Alerts, a platform designed to bring relevant emergency alerts about bad weather, public safety, earthquakes and other disasters to users searching Google maps
The new platform includes alerts from US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), the National Weather Service, and the US Geological Survey (USGS) will be accessible when you search on Google maps, Google said on its blog.
Whether you see an alert depends on which alerts are active at a given location, their severity, and your search query.
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