EQInfo

gempa GmbH

About this app

Development discontinued:
We do not continue to develop this app actively. Reasons are the maintainance effort required for all operating systems which are subject to change every once in a while. Furthermore the diversity of hardware and system configurations makes it hard to get phone notifications work in a reliable way without using Googles or Apples built-in mechanisms. We simply cannot give enough attention to the development of this application as it deserves.

The code is now open source and published here: https://github.com/gempa/eqinfo-app

The current version should remain functional, as long as your device is able to run it. The backend will be maintained for the foreseeable future, but might get switched off at some point, if usage numbers decline significantly.

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EQInfo shows earthquake information world-wide. Information can be filtered by region, magnitude and agency. It provides system notifications and social media sharing options.

EQInfo was conceived and implemented by the expert developers of SeisComP, https://www.gempa.de, a software platform used by most geophysical institutes in the world to automatically detect and locate earthquakes.

EQInfo lets you view seismic data from a variety of stations on several networks including Geofon and IRIS, https://www.earthscope.org/.

EQInfo now lets you submit "Did you feel it" reports from your mobile device. In doing so, everyone can help to better assess the impact that an earthquake might have in their community.

The following features are supported:

1. List of latest earthquakes showing magnitude, region, origin time, direction/distance to the earthquake epicenter and earthquake monitoring agency
2. Earthquake details including overview map and multiple solutions from different agencies
3. Map of latest earthquakes
4. Submission and displaying of felt-reports
5. Visualization of earthquake waveforms
6. Sharing of event information via social media
7. Define multiple filters for the earthquake information, filter by magnitude, depth, time and region
8. Configuration of data sources, update intervals, geolocation and unit of measurement
9. Background updates and notifications

The following agencies provide information to EQInfo:

- Raspberry Shake Citizen-Scientist Network, https://raspberryshake.org
- GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, https://geofon.gfz-potsdam.de
- European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre (EMSC), https://www.emsc-csem.org
- United States Geological Survey (USGS), https://www.usgs.gov
- Indonesian Agency for Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysics (BMKG), https://inatews.bmkg.go.id
- Natural Resources Canada (NRCan), https://earthquakescanada.nrcan.gc.ca
- Spanish National Geographic Institute (IGN), https://www.ign.es
- National Observatory of Athens (NOA, Greece), https://www.noa.gr
- Kandilli Observatory and Earthquake Research Institute (KOERI, Turkey), http://www.koeri.boun.edu.tr
- GNS Science New Zealand, https://www.gns.cri.nz
- Bureau of Economic Geology, University of Texas at Austin (TexNet), https://www.beg.utexas.edu
- Hessian State Office for Conservation, Environment and Geology (HLNUG), https://www.hlnug.de
- School and Observatory of Earth Sciences (EOST, France), https://eost.unistra.fr
- Swiss Seismological Service (SED), http://www.seismo.ethz.ch
- National Center for Seismology, Ministry of Earth Sciences (NCS, India), https://seismo.gov.in
- Seismology in Central Germany (SIM), https://antares.thueringen.de/cadenza/seismo

The gempa team like to thank all users which provided feedback and thus helped to improve this App.

Translations are mostly done by using Googles automatic translation.
If you are a native speaker and want to help us by providing some translations, please feel free to contact us at any time!

Ratings and reviews

The probably most professional "earthquake app" (shows waveform stream with frequency band & filtering, supports various agencies, allows setting multiple filters to cover any area(s), neat map incl. felt reports, etc.). Tried several other apps, but this is the most sleek one - especially after the update (Thanks!). A news section would be nice to make it complete, e.g. fed by a news crawler, or damage reports from significant events, etc. PS: the 3.0.0 update sets all depth filters to >700km, resulting in 0 found events.

App used to be really good App was down for 36 hours and now nothing coming from 12 of the 16 agencies I have activated including the USGS. Don't waste your time on this app Developer has abandoned app.

System theme detection is not working correctly, the automatic detection said and applied the light theme when my device is set to dark theme. I just manually selected dark theme as a work around. Overall would be 5 stars once that is fixed, love the earthquake list and app overall.

What’s new

View seismic data from a variety of stations on several networks.
Please note, that notifications are broken on most devices.
This is due to a lack of proper cloud messaging infrastructure.