MyShake Earthquake Alerts

Name: MyShake Earthquake Alerts
Rating: 3.3 (1903 reviews)
Author: University of California, Berkeley

By: University of California, Berkeley

Earthquake Warning California

Features & Capabilities

MyShake Earthquake Alerts is a free app that delivers timely early warnings for California, Oregon and Washington via the USGS ShakeAlert system. It includes safety tips, an interactive earthquake map, and real-time notifications to help you stay safe before and during shaking.

Developed by UC Berkeley Seismology Lab, the app supports citizen science through a smartphone-based seismic network. It’s ad-free and multilingual (English, Español, 繁體中文, Filipino, 한국어, Tiếng Việt), available to everyone.

User Growth & Download Statistics

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By:

University of California, Berkeley

Rating:

3.30

(1,903) 19 new ratings

Version:

3.1.36 Last updated: 2026-01-06

Version code:

880859542

Creation date:

2019-07-17

Compatible devices:

Size:

134.86MB

URLs:

Website ,Privacy policy

Full description:

Source:

Apple Apps Store

Data ingested on:

2026-07-01

Compare stats and ranking:

Ranking

# 51,157 ▲ 180

Other platforms

MyShake Earthquake Alerts (v1.0.13)

4,000 5.00

(1)

MyShake Earthquake Alerts (v3.1.38)

1,524,981 3.77

(5,252)

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Developed by:

University of California, Berkeley

Apple Apps Store

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/myshake-earthquake-alerts/id1467058529

Website:

https://myshake.berkeley.edu/

User Reviews

Users generally value MyShake for its early warnings and safety benefits, with reports of alerts arriving seconds before shaking. However, recurring issues include false/distant alerts, lack of threshold controls, overly loud alarms, inconsistent reliability across devices, and inaccuracies in local event data. These concerns limit trust and usefulness, indicating a need for improved accuracy, configurability, and notification management.

Pros

Provides early warnings with seconds of lead time before shaking
Can be life-saving by giving time to take protective actions
Free to use, a readily available safety tool
Particularly useful in earthquake-prone regions (e.g., California)

Cons

Frequent false or distant alerts that wake users unnecessarily
No user controls to set minimum magnitude or alert sensitivity
Alerts can be very loud and disruptive, waking users in the middle of the night
Reliability is inconsistent across devices; some users don’t receive alerts
Inaccurate local information (epicenter/distance) or non-local alerts

Recent reviews

I just exp the 2nd time this app notified me about an earthquake. Last time I got a Notification just seconds before the earthquake! This time, I received one about a minute after. I have both MyShake and QuakeFeed. MyShake is dependable, and QuakeFeed is for information. I’m very satisfied with MyShake app!

by Ko*****, 2026-06-24

App frequently crashes at startup. Also disturbingly sends urgent “drop & cover” alerts for events far away, like M6 Mendocino temblor to Santa Clara County residents. Untrustworthy

by se*****, 2026-06-24

I made the mistake of downloading this app & it got stuck open on my Home Screen forcing me to do a hard shutdown of my phone just so I could delete it. I am now concerned that it will still be active in the background after reading the horror stories in other reviews.