MyShake

UC Berkeley Seismological Laboratory

About this app

Now issuing earthquake early warning alerts in California, Oregon, and Washington!

Key Benefits:

-- Prepare, survive, recover with earthquake alerts for large damaging quakes
-- Set a default alert location using HomeBase
-- Set up custom notifications to know when loved ones are affected by a quake
-- Be a citizen scientist and help measure earthquake motion
-- Safety tips
-- Get earthquake ready and help your community.
-- Share your experience with others after a quake
-- Available in English, Spanish (Español), Chinese Traditional (繁體中文), Filipino, Korean (한국인), and Vietnamese (Tiếng Việt)

The MyShake app -- developed by the UC Berkeley Seismology Lab, sponsored by the California Governor’s Office of Emergency Services -- was the first app powered by ShakeAlert® to provide statewide earthquake early warning alerts in California. The app is one of the delivery modes of the California Earthquake Early Warning System.

MyShake provides earthquake early warnings in California, Oregon, and Washington for estimated magnitude 4.5 earthquakes and higher to phones in the light- heavy shaking areas. Alerts will not go out for all felt events, just damaging ones.

Learn more at http://myshake.berkeley.edu

Ratings and reviews

Negates it's usefulness completely by needing to keep location on. I truly don't understand why we can't (at least have the option to!) just SET a location so we aren't completely draining our battery. In a major earthquake, the power will likely go out (literally happened for our area last month for 30+ hours)... having a functional communication device is so important in those situations!

What happened to the old UI? The new one sucks. Among other things, I don't like the orange dots. They are all the same size. The diameter of the dots indicated the size of the earthquake. That was useful. Please go back to the old one, allow users to choose the new or old UI, or choose color & style and color/style of the background map. At least you left the interactive maps alone. It wasn't broken so why did you "fix" it? With the old map, you could enlarge it to show the fault systems! Booo!

This app looks great! But, there is a bug on the map display screen. The boxes at the top left, "I felt shaking" and, "Filter," are cutting off the words. Also, the top right box that says, "List" is only partially displayed. But not that big of a deal. Everything else looks good. I am playing with the settings. Very excited about this app. Thank you UC Berkeley! I will update my review in due time. I am using a Samsung Galaxy 8+ Plus.

What's new

- Four new languages: Chinese Traditional (繁體中文), Filipino, Korean (한국인), Vietnamese (Tiếng Việt)
- Bug Fixes