The agency says following Thursday's earthquake, there were more than 20,000 downloads of the MyShake app in just three hours. Overall, 3.5 million people have the app.

MyShake warns of incoming earthquakes, sometimes seconds before shaking starts. The alert system was already available on iPhones, iPads and Android phones. UC Berkeley is also working to make ...

The MyShake app, which is run by the Governor’s Office of Emergency Services and the UC Berkeley Seismology Lab, primarily gives advance warning of a strong earthquake.

Overnight, MyShake users received a test alert accompanied by a loud sound and verbal announcement saying the alert was a test. The actual test alert was scheduled for 10:19 a.m. PT Thursday ...

MyShake had planned to send a test alert Thursday to its users in California, Oregon and Washington for a fictitious earthquake in San Francisco at 10:19 a.m. Pacific time, according to its website.

Many people reported receiving the MyShake alert when that quake struck around 9:25 a.m. PT Wednesday. Thursday's early morning, premature alert included a voice alert saying, "This is a test." ...

The MyShake app debuted in 2019 and was developed by the Berkeley Seismology Lab. It “collects motion data from your phone’s sensors and uses a patented neural network to determine whether ...

As part of the ShakeOut, an estimated 2.8m users of the state’s MyShake app will receive a test earthquake alert with warnings in English and Spanish for a fictitious 5.0 earthquake centred ...

A collaborative effort of IIT Roorkee and Uttarakhand government, BhuDev is an earthquake early warning app in India. The app ...

As the MyShake app was put to the test during the 5.1 earthquake near San Jose, experts also discuss when a 7.5 quake could rock the Bay Area.

The MyShake App is available in English, Spanish, Chinese, Vietnamese, Korean and Filipino, can be download from smartphone app stores, or directly from the MyShake website myshake.berkeley.edu/.