Shake Alert App Bay Area. MyShake App now available, gives early warning for earthquakes. Like the first iPhone, MyShake is a first version of what will be an ever improving earthquake alert system. On Thursday, California will unveil an app created by UC Berkeley that will offer earthquake early warnings to any corner of the state. Warnings will also be issued for some quakes by text message. Uists developed the app to alert users to shaking caused by a magnitude 4.5 earthquake or greater.. a 4.5 and 4.7, struck the Bay Area and the Central Coast.
The system's statewide debut coincided with the 30th anniversary of the Loma Prieta earthquake that ravaged the San Francisco Bay Area on Oct. 17, 1989, as well as the annual Great Shakeout safety. The app, Shake Alert LA, is free and will give users 5 to 10 seconds warning if they live in Los Angeles.. For Bay Area seismologists, who have been developing an earthquake detection system.
The sensor network has reached target density in the Los Angeles, Bay Area, and Seattle metro regions and version 2.0 of the alert production system has been deployed. This updated version of the ShakeAlert System produces both point source and line source earthquake solutions, has added ground motion estimation products, and the number of.
The Bay Area could be just months away from getting a ShakeAlert early-warning system which alerts users via a smartphone app after a quake strikes that shock waves are headed their way. The system's statewide debut coincided with the 30th anniversary of the Loma Prieta earthquake that ravaged the San Francisco Bay Area on Oct. 17, 1989, as well as the annual Great Shakeout safety. Uists developed the app to alert users to shaking caused by a magnitude 4.5 earthquake or greater.. a 4.5 and 4.7, struck the Bay Area and the Central Coast. The first state-wide early warning system in the nation launched today, on the 30th anniversary of the devastating Loma Prieta earthquake that killed 63 people in the San Francisco Bay Area.
