Earthquake Network

Futura Innovation SRL

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About this app

Earthquake Network is the most comprehensive app on earthquakes and for most countries of the world it is the only earthquake early warning system able to alert you before the seismic waves. More details about the research project at https://www.sismo.app

Main features:

- Earthquake early warnings
- User's reports on felt earthquakes
- Earthquake data from national and international seismic networks starting from magnitude 0.0
- Earthquake notifications through voice synthesizer (only PRO version)

The Earthquake Network research project develops a smartphone-based earthquake early warning system able to detect earthquakes in real time and to alert the population in advance. Smartphones are able to detect earthquakes thanks to the accelerometer on-board each device. When an earthquake is detected, users with the application installed are immediatly alerted. Since earthquake waves travel at a finite speed (from 5 to 10 km/s) it is possible to alert the population not yet reached by the damaging waves of the earthquake. For the scientific details about the project please refer to the Frontiers scientific journal at https://bit.ly/2C8B5HI

Note that the information on earthquakes detected by national and international seismic networks is usually published with a delay ranging from a few minutes to many hours, depending on the seismic network.

Ratings and reviews

The only reason I keep it is because it does give you a very fast alert when there's a quake anywhere near you. On the down side, it alerts you when the quake is too far away for you to feel. It not only gives initially incorrect size and location, but never corrects it. Finally, the alarm will go off repeatedly just for looking at a prior event.

last update improved the app graphics but removed or hid several settings -no longer able to select seismic networks. -reduced the notification radius (not able to receive notifications from countries far from your location (more than 2000km), unless you enable to notify all gloabl earthquakes above 2.0. There should be an option to select countries you want to be notified of. -when you receive a notification, the seismic wave is no longer shown. -chat moderators are childish

Not easy to use for those of us "old folks" that aren't tech savvy. I just wanted to get instant alerts of quakes for my area only. I don't wish to have my phone tracked all the time, so I wanted to leave "location" turned off but still get notifications for my zipcode. Seems pretty simple to me. But I can't even ask a question on this app. Need to simplify further for those of us that don't play with computers all day.

What's new

Preliminary changes to support Android 15