Earthquake Network
Smartphones (or tablets) are able to detect earthquakes thanks to the accelerometer on-board each smartphone. When an earthquake is detected, users with the application installed are immediatly notified. As the waves of the earthquake travel at a given speed (from 5 to 10 km/s), it is possible to notify the population not yet reached by the damaging waves of the earthquake.
Note that the project is currently at the experimental stage. Detection of earthquakes is influenced by the number of active devices in the area hit by the earthquakes, by the their spatial distribution and by the sensitivity of the accelerometers. Nonetheless, the goal of the warning system is to detect strong earthquakes that has the potential to harm or damage people and things.
Information on earthquakes detected by the national and international seismic networks are usually published with a delay ranging from few minutes to many hours, depending on the network. For more information please visit the web pages of the networks included in the application and listed below.
USGS (U.S. Geological Survey)http://www.usgs.gov
EMSC (European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre)http://www.emsc-csem.org
GeoNet (Earthquake Commission and GNS Science)http://www.geonet.org.nz
CSN (Centro Sismologico Nacional)http://www.sismologia.cl
INGV (Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia)http://www.ingv.it
IGN (Instituto Geográfico Nacional)http://www.ign.es
CSI (China Seismic Information)http://www.csi.ac.cn
JMA (Japanese Meteorological Agency)http://www.jma.go.jp
Ineter (Instituto Nicaragüense de Estudios Territoriales)http://www.ineter.gob.ni
SSN (Servicio Sismológico Nacional)http://www.ssn.unam.mx
SGC (Servicio Geológico Colombiano)http://www2.sgc.gov.co
RSN (Red Sismológica Nacional)http://www.rsn.ucr.ac.cr
Funvisis (Fundación Venezolana de Investigaciones Sismológicas)http://www.funvisis.gob.ve
INPRES (Instituto Nacional de Prevención Sísmica)http://www.inpres.gov.ar/
IGEPN (Instituto Geofísico Escuela Politécnica Nacional)http://www.igepn.edu.ec
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Reviews (24)
❌Adding back tsunamis alerts/report and volcanoes would be nice. As well as USGS links, redirecting to their website for more info about an earthquake. No dark theme. 📌Dev pls, It should be mentioned it's only working with 1 network, hoping to see more compatibility in the future. 💥Earthquake energy max filter is 5.5, would be nice to have 6 or even up to 6.5
Great!!!!! real time earthquake alarm But the user interface it's kind of tricky. You have to tweak the settings in order to have the app optimized. If not it can be annoying in a seismic area like south Puerto Rico lately. Is fantastic knowing there's an earthquake while driving... can save lives. Or knowing when it's going to tremble in the moment or few seconds before gives you time to get out or look for protection. Overall exellent App... (Cons) Confuse User Interface
EDIT 1/28/20: My enthusiasm for the app has dimmed somewhat. Tapping on an earthquake panel takes you to a map of the earthquake but there is no distance scale. The map shows concentric circles around the epicenter but what do they mean? Clearly the UI needs some work. ORIG: Best earthquake app IMO. There is a lot there so it takes some time to setup and understand. One bug I did notice though: in the app there is a setting for the volume of the alarm and a setting for the volume of the voice notification (pro version). But the app doesn't remember the setting - if the user or another app subsequently changes the device alarm or media volume then the alarm or voice notification will be at the new levels.
Great app with a ton of information available. Highly recommended. One question: Why do I get the rapid "busy telephone" sound when my phone is set down and how do I mute that? I have to kill the app at night because this alert goes off every 5 to 10 minutes. I have seen one mention in a review of this same sound. It does not correlate with any alert settings that I can see.
Works well once configured. Even better with a subscription service and pro version. Try the free version First like I did learn about the program and test it out. I decided to switch over from learning about it to using it. This was because of an earthquake I was informed about as what's happening at the afterwards and not before. But the idea was there and the timing was great I wanted a better time response and this comes with the paid version. Very awesome and satisfied. California USA
It was a good app until it started sending real time alert of other faraway countries. It does not sound for Puerto Rico and USA. It is something else. At first it was perfect. As of what you said, before it would sound for all movements detected by phones. I do not recieve anything at all. All sounds were different and I knew what was happening. Now the app does not sound unless it is a faraway country. We did have a 4.8 close to us and it did not sound. Yes and I am grateful for our Island. 🤔
I like the ability to adjust the notifications to my personal needs; however, everytime I connect it to my charger, this app supercedes ALL notification settings on my phone, including the settings in my other apps. I get the same annoying alarm type notification for ALL my notifications while my phone is charging, even if my phone is set to silent. I've tried reconfiguring every setting on the app as well as my phone yet still can't resolve the issue. I paid for the pro features, so disappointed
It's a good app, the alert sound is rather eerie, it could be less "psycho" sounding. Also, there have been times that I have felt an earthquake, and I could see that other users in my area also felt it, as their phones reported it, but the event never showed up in the feed, so not sure what happened there.
It's very confusing to understand what is going on with this app. When i click "test alert" im presented with a paragraph of obscure text telling me to go to sections of the app which either do not exist, are named differently, or are very difficult to find. I suppose it's better than nothing. I have been receiving alerts but they are very late so far. It's not clear if they are coming from other smartphone users or USGS.
Great app alerted me instantly today though I was directly above the epicenter. Remember to disable battery optimization as it may interfere with the app. Love the real time simulation of seismic wave. I suggest to add a longer vibration along with the alarm and possibly to increase the screen brightness. Also would be nice to have on the first page the earthquake magnitude once available. And why fault lines were removed? Great work anyway.
I live in Northern California and I have several earthquake apps. This app consistantly provides real-time notifications that are received immediately, while my other apps may (or may not) eventually notify me of a quake that occurred 30 - 60 minutes ago. It's easy to use & I'm able to quickly post "I felt it" notifications. This is also the most detailed app that I've found. I recommend that new users be sure to adjust their settings to what their notification preferences are ahead of time.
From CHILE, the most sismic country in the planet, this is the BEST earthquakes APP! SHOWING THE SIESMIC WAVES IN REAL TIME AND ACCURATE AS HELL. THE ALARM SOUNDS AND THE EARTH STARTS SHAKING
Paid for PRO. Getting molested every 10 minutes, even with phone in do not disturb mode. I've spent an estimated two cumulative hours trying to fine tune alerts. Should be straight forward. No. 4 rapid loud alarms with a cryptic message "earthquake network alert sound". Yeah, I get it. I can't sleep. I should be getting alerts for only a big one. Uninstalling... :-(
The user interface needs polish as it takes a while to understand where to go to reduce the alerts you receive, and get alerts for big quakes only. The default settings are too inclusive and VERY loud (as it should be for an alert that could save your life). However the app works impressively well and I'm in the north of Puerto Rico and getting alerts from quakes in the South, before the wave of the quake hits me, so I'm prepared, even if for a few seconds, but way better than none.
Since purchasing this app, having upgraded from the original free one, and after a brief disruption problem with their server ... I've now decided that I made the right decision to keep and upgrade. The audible alert via imediate recognition from the other cellphones using this app alerting others before even USGS has posted results of quake having happened is an amazing feature. I've lived in southern California my whole life and with the 4th of July having starting, this is the best app ever😎
when I am alerted there is a quake nearby, I don't want to search all over for additional info on the quake. One alert this morning...and there are multiple reports of it. I can't tell if its upgrade, down grade of magnitude or just repeated showing of same quake. no map to zoom in to see where the quake happened....maybe it's just my lack of understanding on the apps function, alerts or operation but it doesn't work well enough or reliably enough after a year or so of having it to keep it.
Very useful. Bit clunky at first, but easy to get a hang of. Downloaded in nov 2019, and found the chat section very useful. Has helped in recent events in albania, puerto rico, Turkey, and jamaica. Has alot of potential still. My one complaint is that the chat sections look like they're from 2010.
Still ndont work/////Pro paid subs and even with the setting wont notify me,also dont give me optiin for PR seismic , i want my money back ... Q pasa con esta app yo con cel en la mano y mi compañera q NO paga pro $,como yo, recibe notification antes que yo ??
The app was working great until last update. I had it set to notify only seismic activities above 4.0, now I keep getting alerts from quakes with low intensities. It doesn't matter how many times I update the settings I can't change the notifications back the way they were.
not pretty but it has a bunch of selections to choose from, you can manage your warnings, how close do they have to be to set off your alarm, tsunami warnings, an update page, you can look at the world as a whole or watch how far one earthquake traveled, chat in multiple languages, you can report the ones that you felt to share the intensity with other users, it isn't pretty but it's pretty damn good
best free earthquake app so far. get warnings and got a count down before I felt it. it's much quicker on the alert when it uses other people's phones to detect them. I guess it coordinates the type of shaking on the phone with other people's phones in the same area and sends out alerts. very impressed
I downloaded and have been using your earthquake app here in Southern California ever since we had the big earthquakes on the 4th and 5th of July, 2019. It worked fine at first, but now I'm not receiving any type of alerts. I have to check my phone to see if there's been an earthquake notification or not. Also, everything's in kilometers instead of miles, so it's hard to tell how close the earthquakes really are to me. I can't find a setting to change it, or to fix the alerts.
This app works great and working fine until they did a update to version 10.9.25 Now when I receive a earthquake alert, I see it as something that comes across that is not in my settings and when I click on it, shows an earthquake that is not in my settings or in my State. Whomever made the update version needs to fix this BUG or send me the previous version that worked perfectly. Thank you, M.M.
Edit as of May 2022 They aren't interested in saving lives. Now this app charges for real time alerts. It's disgusting how they change a life changing feature into a capitalist one without a warning other than the quake. What a terrible model pay or else. Screw you. Underhanded tactic. ... Old review: It works ok. It gives way too many false alarms for big quakes that are supposed to be 5+ magnitude but end up being just 3. It's configured correctly and other people have the same problem.