People all across the Bay Area will dive under desks on Thursday morning at 10:16 am to take cover. That’s not a prediction of a major earthquake. Rather, it’s part of increasingly popular statewide ...

A mobile app that earlier this month alerted more than half a million people in Northern California in advance of two major shakes is now available for free on Chromebooks and MacOs. The "MyShake" ...

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 MyShake ...

Jacqui McIntosh peers in the window of her red-tagged home in Rio Dell, California, on Dec. 21, 2022, after a 6.4 magnitude earthquake struck the Northern California coastline. With the unpredictable ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An earthquake early warning app, which notified more than 500,000 people following two recent California earthquakes, is now ...

Modern-day devices come with an accelerometer sensor; the Android Earthquake Alerts (AEA) uses this sensor to detect and send early earthquake warnings to the users. Recent research shows that the ...

Could your smartphone save your life? If an earthquake is occurring, it just might. A worldwide Android smartphone-based earthquake detection and early warning system can detect seismic activity in ...