California earthquake warning app is now available on more devices. Here’s how to get it
3 months ago

California earthquake warning app is now available on more devices. Here’s how to get it

LA Times  

The MyShake app, developed by UC Berkeley, has been downloaded nearly 4 million times since it launched in late 2019. California’s free earthquake early warning app is now available for Mac computers and Chromebooks — a major expansion of access for the warning system, which has been available for years on cellphones. The MyShake app, developed by UC Berkeley, is one of the most popular ways to receive earthquake early warnings generated by the U.S. Geological Survey’s ShakeAlert system, which provides alerts in California, Oregon and Washington. “I encourage Californians to download the MyShake app on their phones, laptops or tablets to receive these important alerts, and make sure emergency notifications on mobile devices are turned on,” Newsom said in a statement. The MyShake app is set to trigger alerts if a quake is estimated at magnitude 4.5 or higher and the intensity of shaking at the phone’s location is expected to be at least “weak” — defined as Level 3 on the Modified Mercalli Intensity Scale.

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Earthquake Alert On Phones: How To Enable Push Notifications For Tremors On Your Android, iOS
1 month ago

Earthquake Alert On Phones: How To Enable Push Notifications For Tremors On Your Android, iOS

ABP News  

As the world woke up to consecutive 4.0-magnitude earthquakes in Delhi-NCR and Siwan, Bihar early Monday, the need for early warning systems has now become a dire necessity for enhanced preparedness. By enabling earthquake alerts, users can receive early notifications, providing crucial seconds to take safety measures. How Smartphone Earthquake Alerts Function Built-in motion sensors in smartphones can recognise vibrations …

Earthquake Alert On Phones? Here's How You Can Enable Push Notifications On Your Android Or iOS Device
2 months, 2 weeks ago

Earthquake Alert On Phones? Here's How You Can Enable Push Notifications On Your Android Or iOS Device

ABP News  

Earthquake Today: In the wake of the recent 7.1 magnitude earthquake that struck Nepal early Tuesday morning, it is a stark reminder of the importance of preparedness. One of the most effective ways to stay informed is by enabling earthquake alerts on your smartphone. How To Set Up Earthquake Alerts On Android Phones Open the Settings app. MyShake App For …

California earthquake early warning system: How to get it now
7 months, 1 week ago

California earthquake early warning system: How to get it now

LA Times  

An image of the earthquake early warning issued on MyShake, a free app developed by UC Berkeley that receives seismic alerts from the U.S. Geological Survey’s ShakeAlert system. The magnitude 4.4 quake — centered near Highland Park on Monday — came with an early warning from California’s quake alert system. Those who have iPhones can get earthquake early warnings by …

California’s earthquake revolution: Early-warning systems make strides, issuing more than 5 million alerts
7 months, 2 weeks ago

California’s earthquake revolution: Early-warning systems make strides, issuing more than 5 million alerts

LA Times  

Smartphone apps sent simultaneous alerts to millions of Californians on Tuesday evening, warning them to brace for incoming shaking from a Kern County earthquake. “The heartbeat definitely speeds up, and the adrenaline starts pumping pretty much no matter what,” Jennifer Lazo, chief of the innovation and technology division at Los Angeles’ Emergency Management Department, said of receiving the alerts. ‘big-enough’ …

Demand for quake warning app surges in earthquake-rattled Taiwan
10 months, 2 weeks ago

Demand for quake warning app surges in earthquake-rattled Taiwan

Hindustan Times  

Earthquake warning smartphone apps have surged in popularity in Taiwan due to high demand from people eager to get a few extra seconds to take cover after more than 1,300 aftershocks rattled the island in the past month following a large temblor. Lin Ruei, another co-founder of the app launched in 2022, said their app tracks fast-moving seismic waves from …

California earthquake puts early warning system to the test
2 years, 3 months ago

California earthquake puts early warning system to the test

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy As sensors picked up the …

More than 3 million residents got early earthquake warning: ‘A really big success’
2 years, 3 months ago

More than 3 million residents got early earthquake warning: ‘A really big success’

LA Times  

An earthquake alert from the U.S. Geological Survey appears early Tuesday on the cellphone screen of Greta Turney, a Humboldt County resident. Depending on their distance from the quake’s epicenter — which was about 7.5 miles southwest of Ferndale — many residents were informed of the coming tremors before the shaking began, according to Robert de Groot, part of the …

Bay Area earthquake came with early warning for 2.1 million ShakeAlert app users
2 years, 4 months ago

Bay Area earthquake came with early warning for 2.1 million ShakeAlert app users

LA Times  

A student from Everett Middle School participates in the Great California ShakeOut earthquake drill on Oct. 20 in San Francisco. Many San Francisco Bay Area residents were given several seconds’ warning before the shaking arrived from a magnitude 5.1 earthquake that struck under the mountains east of San Jose this week. The activation of the U.S. Geological Survey’s ShakeAlert system …

Google Claims Android Smartphones Alerted Users Seconds Before California Earthquake, 'Acting As Seismometers'
2 years, 4 months ago

Google Claims Android Smartphones Alerted Users Seconds Before California Earthquake, 'Acting As Seismometers'

ABP News  

Several Android smartphone users were alerted before a moderate earthquake struck California, thanks to the built-in quake detection functionality of Android devices that has been around since 2020, Google claimed Wednesday. According to Google’s Vice President of Engineering for Android, Dave Burke, the earthquake detection functionality was put to test during a 5.1 quake near San Jose, California, and loads …

How to sign up for emergency alerts in Southern California
2 years, 6 months ago

How to sign up for emergency alerts in Southern California

LA Times  

California officials have imposed a series of Flex Alerts during the brutal September heat wave to ease demand on the power grid. Flex Alerts and other power issues If you’re a customer of Southern California Edison, visit the company’s Preference Center to sign up for alerts by email, text or phone call. Severe weather and other regional emergencies If you’ve …

Android smartphone users will soon get instant earthquake alerts. How it works
3 years, 9 months ago

Android smartphone users will soon get instant earthquake alerts. How it works

Live Mint  

Google has been rolling out a new feature that aims to alert users about earthquakes instantly. The tech giant started rolling out the new earthquake alert feature to Android devices in the month of April for a select few countries. Google plans to use the wide network of Android devices to provide people with timely, helpful earthquake information when they …

Explained: Android Earthquake Alert System Will Be Available on Android Phones Worldwide, Soon
3 years, 9 months ago

Explained: Android Earthquake Alert System Will Be Available on Android Phones Worldwide, Soon

News 18  

Your Android phone as an earthquake detection device, will soon be ready for deployment. Google insists that the data being collected for the Android Earthquake Alerts System from Android phones will be collected anonymously. The Android Earthquake Alerts System will be a one of its kind global network which will tap the millions of Android phones in use around the …

Japan and Mexico have earthquake early-warning systems. How does California’s compare?
3 years, 9 months ago

Japan and Mexico have earthquake early-warning systems. How does California’s compare?

LA Times  

A crane removes concrete slabs of an apartment complex that collapsed after the earthquake in Mexico City in 1985. Yet California and the rest of the West Coast are still figuring out what exactly to make of the U.S. Geological Survey’s ShakeAlert earthquake early warning system. His phone’s alert is part of a nationwide earthquake early warning system Japan implemented …

Earthquake apps: Which ones are worth downloading?
3 years, 9 months ago

Earthquake apps: Which ones are worth downloading?

LA Times  

Californians should have MyShake on their phones. Nowadays, there’s an app for everything, including information on earthquakes, and my phone blew up with notifications from earthquake apps. At the time, I was testing the top 10 earthquake apps in the Apple app store for a week, looking at their accessibility — including price, languages and user experience — and accuracy. …

In major milestone, U.S. earthquake early warning system now covers entire West Coast
3 years, 10 months ago

In major milestone, U.S. earthquake early warning system now covers entire West Coast

LA Times  

In a major achievement years in the making, the U.S. earthquake early warning system will now be able to issue alerts to cellphone users anywhere on the West Coast beginning this morning. On Tuesday at 8 a.m., mobile users in Washington state finally gained access to the earthquake early warning system’s mobile alerts. The earthquake early warning system could also …

California’s new early warning earthquake app features a shaking countdown
5 years, 1 month ago

California’s new early warning earthquake app features a shaking countdown

LA Times  

A new earthquake early warning app for smartphones has been released, offering users across California the ability to see a countdown before shaking arrives. Two other apps are available for earthquake early warning but don’t offer countdowns or the ability to ignore warnings for weak and light shaking; they are UC Berkeley’s MyShake app, which offers statewide coverage, and the …

A milestone: Earthquake early warning system sends first public alert to smartphones in California
5 years, 3 months ago

A milestone: Earthquake early warning system sends first public alert to smartphones in California

LA Times  

California’s new MyShake cellphone app sent out its first public alert about a magnitude 4.3 earthquake that jolted the mountains between the Central Coast and the San Joaquin Valley. In a milestone, California’s new statewide earthquake early warning cellphone app sent out its first public alert for a magnitude 4.3 earthquake that ruptured Tuesday in the mountains between the Central …

California earthquake alerts to become available statewide
5 years, 5 months ago

California earthquake alerts to become available statewide

Associated Press  

LOS ANGELES — Earthquake early warning alerts will become publicly available throughout California for the first time this week, potentially giving people time to protect themselves from harm, the Governor’s Office of Emergency Services said Wednesday. Warnings produced by the ShakeAlert system will be pushed through two delivery systems: a cellphone app called MyShake and the same wireless notification system …

California’s earthquake warning app: How much time would you get to prepare?
5 years, 5 months ago

California’s earthquake warning app: How much time would you get to prepare?

LA Times  

In a major advance for seismic safety, California Gov. Authorities will also begin issuing quake early warnings through the Wireless Emergency Alerts system, offering Amber Alert-style text message alerts even for people who have not downloaded the app. The earthquake early warning system works on a simple principle: The shaking from an earthquake travels at the speed of sound through …

Earthquake warning app will give anyone in California the chance to prepare
5 years, 5 months ago

Earthquake warning app will give anyone in California the chance to prepare

LA Times  

A California Highway Patrol officer checks cars the damage done when the upper deck of the Bay Bridge collapsed onto the lower deck in the Loma Prieta earthquake. On Thursday, the California Governor’s Office of Emergency Services will unveil an app created by UC Berkeley that will give all Californians who download it on iOS and Android phones the chance …

2 quakes in 2 days, no warning from ShakeAlertLA. Now the app is getting reworked
5 years, 7 months ago

2 quakes in 2 days, no warning from ShakeAlertLA. Now the app is getting reworked

LA Times  

A new version of Los Angeles’ earthquake early warning app will now alert users of weaker shaking, Mayor Eric Garcetti announced Wednesday. The new threshold will trigger alerts on the city-owned ShakeAlertLA app when “weak” shaking is forecast to arrive in Los Angeles County — a level of shaking, according to the Modified Mercalli Intensity Scale, that is felt quite …

Why L.A.’s early warning system didn’t send an alert before the magnitude 6.4 quake
5 years, 8 months ago

Why L.A.’s early warning system didn’t send an alert before the magnitude 6.4 quake

LA Times  

Did the ShakeAlertLA system fail to provide an earthquake early warning? The ShakeAlertLA smartphone app was only designed to alert users of cellphones physically located in Los Angeles County if there was a decent chance of destruction, with the warning system forecasting at least “light shaking,” or level 4 on the Modified Mercalli Intensity Scale. It was forecast by the …

Los Angeles Gets America's First Earthquake Warning App
6 years, 2 months ago

Los Angeles Gets America's First Earthquake Warning App

Wired  

This story originally appeared on CityLab and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration. On January 3, Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti announced the release of ShakeAlertLA, a new earthquake-warning app for residents of Los Angeles County. The app—the first of its kind in the United States—promises to “save lives by giving precious seconds to you and to your family …

Long-awaited earthquake early warning app for L.A. can now be downloaded
6 years, 2 months ago

Long-awaited earthquake early warning app for L.A. can now be downloaded

LA Times  

Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti explains how to use the new ShakeAlertLA app, available for Android and iOS devices. ShakeAlertLA, an app created under the oversight of Mayor Eric Garcetti and the city, is designed to work with the U.S. Geological Survey’s earthquake early warning system, which has been under development for years. For more than a year, the mayor …

Earthquake early warning system that could detect the big one goes live on the West Coast
6 years, 5 months ago

Earthquake early warning system that could detect the big one goes live on the West Coast

Daily Mail  

Automated alerts from the fledgling West Coast earthquake early warning system are ready to be used broadly by businesses, utilities, schools and other entities but not for mass public notification, officials have revealed. 'We're making a large change from a production prototype in pilot mode to an open-for-business operational mode,' Doug Given, earthquake early warning coordinator for the U.S. Geological …

Researchers develop app that crowdsources earthquake detection
8 years, 10 months ago

Researchers develop app that crowdsources earthquake detection

Firstpost  

Researchers on Sunday released a Japanese version of an Android app that takes information from smartphones to detect earthquakes and eventually warn users of impending jolts from nearby quakes. Since it was first released in English on February 12, more than 170,000 people have downloaded the app from around the world, and on any given day 11,000 phones provide data …

Scientists develop new app that uses your cellphone to detect earthquakes
9 years, 1 month ago

Scientists develop new app that uses your cellphone to detect earthquakes

LA Times  

When the earth shakes in California, the first place you are likely to hear about it is on social media. Those same people are contributing to our further understanding of earthquakes, because they’re collecting data that will help us better understand the earthquake process.” × Richard Allen, director of UC Berkeley’s Seismology Laboratory, demonstrates how the MyShake app collects data …

QuakeAlert warns you when the shaking is about to hit using a countdown
10 years, 4 months ago

QuakeAlert warns you when the shaking is about to hit using a countdown

Daily Mail  

The app will be free, but the alarms are The startup's system includes an app, alongside a series of physical alarms that sound emergency tones as soon as possible, before the shaking reaches that particular location In the past 30 days, more than 1,400 earthquakes have struck globally - and at least 160 of them have rocked the US across …

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