# MyShake Earthquake Alerts

> Earthquake Warning California

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/id1467058529](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id1467058529)

## Overview

- **ID:** `id1467058529`
- **Platform:** Apple
- **Type:** Apple app
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** University of California, Berkeley
- **Category:** Weather
- **Rating:** 3.30 / 5 (1,925 ratings)
- **Version:** 3.1.36
- **Last updated:** 2026-01-06
- **First published:** 2019-07-17
- **Size:** 135 MB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-07
- **Store listing:** [Apple App Store](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/myshake-earthquake-alerts/id1467058529)
- **Website:** [https://myshake.berkeley.edu/](https://myshake.berkeley.edu/)
- **Privacy policy:** [https://myshake.berkeley.edu/privacy-policy.html](https://myshake.berkeley.edu/privacy-policy.html)

## Description

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.

## Rankings

- #47,884 — Overall

## Review summary

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

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Source: [Chrome-Stats](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id1467058529)