Google Maps Reveals Chinese Earthquake Devastation, Can Chinese Google Users See This?

The company prepares a disaster response similar to what it put in place after the Haitian earthquake.

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Last week, a 6.9 magnitude earthquake hit Qinghai, a remote Chinese province on the Tibetan plateau--a place so remote that it was days before any reporters made their way there, and reliable information on the catastrophe is still hard to come by. But thankfully, there's Google Maps: Working with GeoEye--a company that runs survey satellites--they've produced some astonishing pre- and...