safety check

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safety check is an aggregation feature that shows a list of the people you follow in a disaster affected geographical area that have marked themselves as safe; like Facebook does at https://www.facebook.com/safetycheck.

Silo Examples

Facebook

Facebook has a Safety Check page:

which redirects to a subpage of that URL of the most recent disaster worldwide that Facebook is tracking and aggregating safety information for.

2016-07-14 screenshot of a FB Safety Check:


2015-11-13 Text-ish summary of Facebook's Safety Check:

ABOUT THE CRISIS
map of affected area with large blue translucent circle over the epicenter
text description of disaster
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Disaster Event Name
FACEBOOK SAFETY CHECK

Quickly find and connect with friends in the area. Mark them safe
if you know they're OK.

Are you in the affected area?
Yes, let my friends know.

Note also list of people, some with buttons next to their names:

 

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