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Watch the Puget Sound region grow over 32 years

Jan 31, 2018, 10:17 AM | Updated: 10:21 am

The Puget Sound region has grown at an outrageous pace over the past few decades.

Prepare for 1.8 million more people

Now, thanks to the Google Earth engine, you can see just how quickly that has occurred.

A time-lapse using yearly mosaics from more than 5 million satellite images from 1984 to 2016 shows the region’s vast growth.

Click around. See if you can spot any major developments (Hint: The Kingdome was destroyed in 2000).

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