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What i really like and admire about Google, is the fact that it tries hard and works on making information accessible to common people through its various products and partnerships. Now, in its attempt to make information more accessible, Google now shows you recent earthquake information with a simple search query “Earthquake”

As per the Official Google Blog

Earthquake search is the latest of Google’s special search features, and many others can help you in different ways. If you’d like to know the local time where an earthquake occurred, search for “time” followed by the location (for example, “time Japan“). Let’s say the epicenter was 50km from the coast and you want to know how far that is in miles. Type “50km in miles” into the search box. You can find out about these special features and many more on the Search Features page.

 

The only catch: This search works only for US states and cities. ( Atleast i couldn’t find information related to other countries using the search)

Thank you Google for helping us get information which certainly used to be obscure to the eyes of the common man on the street. Am sure you will add more countries to this search, making information even more accessible.

Also Read: [How-To]Get the local time of any place using Google

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