MyShake app gets more than 20,000 downloads in 3 hours after Malibu-area earthquake. Story by KABC • 9h. California has a long history of earthquakes, ...

MyShake also uses a fine-tuned algorithm that can distinguish earthquake vibrations from other everyday vibrations, preventing a phone running the app from constantly sending a stream of data.

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 ...

The MyShake app alerts rely on the U.S. Geological Survey’s backbone ShakeAlert earthquake early warning system for the West Coast, which has received greater financial support from state and ...

As of Wednesday evening, the MyShake app has over 333,000 registered phones. There are nearly 1,000 earthquakes recorded by the network and users submitted over 2,100 reports of earthquakes.

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 ...

Named MyShake, the free app, available on Google Android phones and at myshake.berkeley.edu, uses smartphone sensors to detect movement caused by an earthquake. Click here to read the full story ...

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 ...

Oct. 17 was the Great ShakeOut, an opportunity to train yourself to Drop, Cover and Hold On when earthquake shaking begins. Oct. 17 was also the statewide launch of MyShake, a mobile phone app that… ...

With that in mind, researchers have been working on early warning systems that could save lives, and the MyShake app, developed by UC Berkely, is one such option. The app, ...

Allen says MyShake needs at least 300 users in a given 68-square-mile area to work well. With an eye to retaining users, the scientists worked with Silicon Valley Innovation Center, ...

Instead, MyShake was developed to use your device's highly sensitive accelerometer to detect and report earthquakes. According to Allen, making MyShake required surmounting two difficult problems.