Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The MyShake app, developed by UC Berkeley, has been downloaded nearly 4 million times since it launched in late 2019. (Richard ...

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 ...

California’s earthquake warning system sent alerts to more than 1 million people before the 5.6-magnitude quake that struck in a rural area of Northern California on Wednesday morning, according to ...

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 ...

Google is rolling out multiple Android updates, including earthquake alerts and detection. There are also tools to help the blind and emergency callers. Further updates bring a new calendar app for ...

Worried about earthquakes? There’s an app for that. The Red Cross has introduced its earthquake app for people in western Arizona, where a big shake could occur. “It’s really cool,” said Trude ...

A new app could turn the world’s 3 billion smartphones into a massive seismic network, listening for tiny tremors and improving our earthquake early warning capability. Up until now, researchers have ...

A new app will now alert Los Angeles residents seconds before a large earthquake strikes the city and surrounding area. ShakeAlertLA app, developed by LA Mayor Eric Garcetti in partnership with AT&T ...

For hundreds of thousands of local residents, the first sign of Thursday's earthquake wasn't the shaking; it was the alarm and alert they got on their phones moments before the quake hit. According to ...