MyShake Earthquake Alerts

Name: MyShake Earthquake Alerts
Rating: 3.3 (1882 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

(1,882) 1 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:

2026-06-07

Compare stats and ranking:

Ranking

# 51,103 ▲ 241

Other platforms

MyShake Earthquake Alerts (v1.0.13)

4,000 5.00

(1)

MyShake Earthquake Alerts (v3.1.38)

1,518,390 3.81

(5,228)

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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

Literally, had an earthquake less than a 2 miles away & this app recorded nothing. Not a surprise. Just time to delete this app.

by di*****, 2026-04-27

I went on a Caribbean cruise and in the middle of the night we were awakened in the middle of the night by an alert for a moderate quake in California that wasn’t even felt at our home, we checked. Another middle of the night alert at home was completely false, terrifying me for no reason. Please add device tracking for better accuracy.

by Li*****, 2026-04-14

I really like the fact that this app can notify users before an earthquake, which is very useful for earthquake prone areas like California. Although, I would like you to at least consider the following suggestion. I think you should have 2 alert variants. 1 is for the magnitude 4.5 to 6.5 and let out an alert that is the same volume as the current one, but it sounds a little less urgent. The other would be for magnitude 6.6+ and would be the same volume but sound very alarming to signal to users to watch out.