The map shows 34,513 recorded points on Earth that have been struck by meteorites since 2,300BC. As impressive as that figure might seem, it doesn't include data for where meteorites that haven't left any evidence, like every single one that landed in an ocean, or impact sites that haven't been discovered yet.
Speaking to The Verge, de la Torre says it only took him about 30 minutes to create the map using the crowdsourced platform OpenStreetMap.
The heat map is embedded below for you to see if your neighborhood has ever been struck by a meteorite.
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