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- comments which may cause public panic or falsely cite the deployment of emergency services (e.g., "major earthquake to strike Los Angeles in next 24 hours!").
- In short: be nice, be mature, and add to the discussion. If you have any questions or comments about this policy, please email us. Note: If we do delete comments from this page, or associated USGS profiles, for violating our Comment Policy above, we will not collect any personal information related to the comment. We will only collect the comment itself. If we delete a comment, we will remove any personal information contained within that comment to the best of our ability, before capturing it. Content that we can remove from our Page includes status updates, comments, mentions, cross-posts, notes, or any other user-supplied content which is posted to the USGS page or any of it's modules or sections.
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