Ok, here's what konsole says when I tried to open it:
Google Earth has caught signal 11.
We apologize for the inconvenience, but Google Earth has crashed.
This is a bug in the program, and should never happen under normal
circumstances. A bug report and debugging data have been written
to this text file:
/home/username/.googleearth/crashlogs/crashlog-4f7879b2.txt
Please include this file if you submit a bug report to Google