Google earthquake alerts warned 11.4M before Venezuela’s quakes
THE SO WHAT
Google’s Earthquake Alerts reaching 11.4 million people in a country without a national warning system shows how mobile OS vendors are becoming de facto public safety infrastructure. If you operate in disaster-prone regions, treat these platforms as critical partners in your continuity plans — and design comms and ops assuming alerts may route through them, not the state.
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