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The South Pacific Drone Zone

Or, Earth's Earth.

If for whatever reason you're fixing to pinpoint the loudest, most unrelentingly dinny place on Earth that's populated by humans, you'll want to look toward the usual suspects - New York City, Cairo, Mumbai, Chicago, and on and on.

But if you're looking for something a bit more organic, a bit slower and bellowing and mysteriously droooo(oo)ning, you'll want to board a ship and head due west from the southern tip of South America.

Tectonically, this remote region is a patchwork. The Antarctic, Nazca, and Pacific plates all converge here. Even better, four of modern history's unaccountable terra-acoustical blasts have all eked from its depths.

Welcome to the other loudest fucking place on Earth.

Read more at Motherboard.