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lowest altitude problem

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I was just wondering about the Top lowest altitude stat. The lowest ones in the the US are more than -17,000 Ft? How can that be, I know there are no elevations in the US at that level.
in Miscellaneous by raistlin306 (220 points)

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The first absolutely real low elevation (on the surface of the earth) is halfway down page 8 and is the Earthcache 'The Dead Sea' at -415m.

https://www.geocaching.com/geocache/GC69JJC_the-dead-sea

All the real top lowest elevations are in Israel, Palestine or Jordan and on the shores of the Dead Sea.
by GCZ Team (22.0k points)
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The marker of the caches are located in the atlantic or pacific ocean. So the sealevel is counted at this place in the statistics.
by GrafZahl75 (1.3k points)
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I think the correct answer was that the seafloor was considered in that case. That does not make sense to me unless the cache is a diving/scuba cache with the corresponding attribute. If not this should flag as 0 m. (The lowest elevation in the USA and in fact, entire North America is -86 m located in Death Valley, CA).

by Domino_67 (6.8k points)
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