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Google admits its alert system failed to accurately warn people in Turkey's 2023 quake

The system miscalculated the magnitude of the first earthquake, sending a less severe notification to many.

Ideally, around 10 million people using Android devices, within 98 miles from the epicentre, should've received Google's highest level of "Take Action" alert, meant for stronger magnitude earthquakes. (Image credit: Google)However, now the tech giant has made some clarifications and agreed to the fact that the alert system failed in 2023, and it needed to be fine-tuned to respond to such catastrophic events. (Image credit: Michael Hicks / Android Central)Google first launched its Earthquake Alerts System back in 2020 and expanded its access to more countries in 2021.

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