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.

Also known as ShakeAlert, the MyShake app takes information from ShakeAlert to notify millions of people across California, Oregon and Washington. "The EEW was triggered for this earthquake.

A number of people in the Bay Area and across California got a rude awakening overnight by a premature earthquake alert test from their MyShake app.

The MyShake App then sends a warning to smartphone users that have installed the app and are in the vicinity of the earthquake. “An earthquake is a rupturing fault that typically comes in two ...

MyShake history Launched in 2019, MyShake was the first smartphone application to provide statewide earthquake early warning alerts for earthquakes with a magnitude of 4.5 or greater.

The MyShake App is a free tool that delivers alerts to users as soon as ground sensors detect significant shaking in their hometown.

Is that an earthquake or a SpaceX launch going off? To help discern the difference, California offers a free early-warning earthquake app called “MyShake” available for download to Google Chromebooks ...

But some of the people who were affected received an early warning from the MyShake mobile app. The app, which is created by the University of California, Berkeley, began development in 2011.

Hundreds of thousands of people received early warnings for Monday’s Los Angeles earthquake and others, thanks in part to the MyShake app developed at UC Berkeley.

Officials says after Thursday's earthquake, there were more than 20,000 downloads of the MyShake app in just three hours.

The MyShake App then sends a warning to smartphone users that have installed the app and are in the vicinity of the earthquake.