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Google turned it off after the mishap in Brazil, iirc.


Looks like they only disabled it in Brazil [1].

1. https://www.theverge.com/news/613572/google-earthquake-detec...


Did they ever follow up on the outcome of that investigation and report on what caused the false detection?


The page is still up: https://crisisresponse.google/android-alerts/

And according to some Googling, they had only disabled it in Brazil while investigating why the false alarm happened.


Is that even slightly proportional? One wrong warning- vs 1 right..




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