MyShake Earthquake Alerts
Earthquake Warning California
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MyShake Earthquake Alerts has no in-app products on record in the United States.
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MyShake Earthquake Alerts reviews
3.3 out of 5, based on 2,018 reviews.
What people like
- Gives seconds of warning before shaking starts
- Alerts arrive faster than other sources like Google
- Completely free to use for safety
What they complain about
- Wakes you up for small quakes far away
- Stops sending alerts if you don't open it often
- Misses earthquakes that are actually happening nearby
CHECK your settings
Reading through some of the reviews here I see many users complaining about *things they can easily fix* by spending 5 or 10 minutes understanding the app and its *settings* 🙄
Does not alert anymore
This all used to be my go to, but now it doesn’t even alert me literally until I open the app. I’m right on a fault line and really rely on something to notify me moments before for the safety of my family. I don’t know what’s changed, but I have an IPhone 16 with the most updated software and I’ve noticed it’s stopped being useful once I upgraded my phone. I’ve had to download other apps in replacement of MyShake.
Spot On
I just exp the 2nd time this app notified me about an earthquake. Last time I got a Notification just seconds before the earthquake! This time, I received one about a minute after. I have both MyShake and QuakeFeed. MyShake is dependable, and QuakeFeed is for information. I’m very satisfied with MyShake app!
Great concept with serious flaw
Ceases to push alerts if you don’t periodically open the app. Defeats the purpose. This should be a high priority fix. Also would help to see the major faults overlain in CA, OR, and WA. Being a line layer I wouldn’t think it would slow down the app much, if at all. The 3 stars are given as the concept and user experience is great, but the fact that its primary purpose - alerts - glitches out if you don’t open the app for a couple weeks is seriously problematic as the user can be lulled into a false reality.
Don’t really enjoy being awoken at 3am with “tests”
Yeah
Helped me
This app works. It warned me multiple times when an earthquake was about to happen in California.
No da alertas
No aviso Es más no detecta la actividad ni en la lista.
The app is great!
This app is very good, it alerted me about 12 seconds before shaking over here in El Centro in February of 2025. Overall, great app for alerts but there is a suggestion I want to make, there should be an option that lets you adjust the option at what minimum magnitude you get alerts from. And another optimization, is that you should be able to change the alert sound to a custom sound.
No alerta
Hoy tembló en san Leandro 3.8 y yo tengo configurada el app para alertas desde temblores de 2.5 grados en adelante y la app no emitió ninguna alerta.
Meh..,
There was a Great Shakeout test today and I did not get any alert. So much for reliability.
I like this app, but I have a VERY important suggestion PLEASE READ
I really like the fact that this app can notify users before an earthquake, which is very useful for earthquake prone areas like California. Although, I would like you to at least consider the following suggestion. I think you should have 2 alert variants. 1 is for the magnitude 4.5 to 6.5 and let out an alert that is the same volume as the current one, but it sounds a little less urgent. The other would be for magnitude 6.6+ and would be the same volume but sound very alarming to signal to users to watch out.
DO NOT DOWNLOAD
I made the mistake of downloading this app & it got stuck open on my Home Screen forcing me to do a hard shutdown of my phone just so I could delete it. I am now concerned that it will still be active in the background after reading the horror stories in other reviews.
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No Alert: 8/13/2026
I was 3 miles from recent earthquake this morning but MyShake never sent an alert.
Worked well
Earthquake happened gave clear warning
Stopped working this year
Not sure why, for years this app has worked perfectly but since iOS 26 I never get earthquake notifications anymore? I gave it the appropriate permission and nada.
Perfect!
I tested the sensor by shakeing the table and it actually picked up data what a clever 👍 😎 app
Works too well
Too many false positives. Alerts over magnitude 5.5 quakes 100 miles away that I don’t even feel. Practically gives me a heart attack several times a year over moderate quakes so far away I can’t feel them. I guess false positives are better than real dangerous quakes that are missed. That said, I wish they could perfect the model so it only alerts if a quake is actually dangerous in the area my device is at. I do not need warnings for moderate sized quakes so far away that they are not felt here.
Works!
Alerted us 6mins before the actual earthquake.
Waste of space
Literally, had an earthquake less than a 2 miles away & this app recorded nothing. Not a surprise. Just time to delete this app.
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Buggy & untrustworthy
App frequently crashes at startup. Also disturbingly sends urgent “drop & cover” alerts for events far away, like M6 Mendocino temblor to Santa Clara County residents. Untrustworthy
AMAZING LIFESAVING APP (sometimes)
This app is incredible. I’ve had 2 warnings both being 4.5 and above game me a good 10-15 seconds before the shaking started and can be very good for earthquakes that are 6.0 and above giving you time to tell your family get out side out under a table. Like I said, amazing app
Never works
My wife’s goes off, mine doesn’t. We’ve sat down with both our phones and verified our settings in the app and elsewhere are the same. I never get notifications.
App does not track the phone. Sometimes way off.
I went on a Caribbean cruise and in the middle of the night we were awakened in the middle of the night by an alert for a moderate quake in California that wasn’t even felt at our home, we checked. Another middle of the night alert at home was completely false, terrifying me for no reason. Please add device tracking for better accuracy.
Works to alert you about earthquakes
This is the only Earthquake App on my phone that warned me and gave me an alert to ‘Duck and Cover’ before the earthquake hit last night at 12:30AM. (There was only a 5 second warning, but since the earthquake was 10 miles away, perhaps that’s all the time that was allowed. Quakes move at the speed of sound while alerts are over radio waves—speed of light.) The App definitely woke me up, but better safe and groggy than dead…
Heart attacks for no reason
I live in earthquake country and I do not recommend this app unless you're a surgeon, dentist or perform some other such task. It sends heart-attack alerts, either moments before, during or after an earthquake depending how close you are to the epicenter, and on how well it's working at that time. It delivers alerts that will wake you up in the middle of the night, for minor earthquakes that are not worthy of an alert to someone not close enough to be affected. It also has sent a false alert for an earthquake far away that didn't actually occur. If the developers can tweak it so it is more finely tuned perhaps it will be of use to the public but at this time it only causes loss of sleep and stress therefore I am deleting the app.
Had to delete due to bugs
Had to delete this app after being woken up at 1:41 in the morning with the warning. On iOS 26.4 this won’t let you change the intensity, current location, or distance for events. In the few times it does work it has saved me maybe a second or two at most, but it seems the app is more alarming than the earthquake itself.
It works!
Today was the first time I got an alert before I felt movement. I know it depends on your proximity to the epicenter but I was very impressed with the several second head start. Thank you for making this app free to help keep people safe.
Ffs
This is the FOURTH time in the past couple of years that this thing has blared in my ear warning me to drop and cover IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT, and then….nothing. No shaking, sometimes the earthquake is over 300 miles away, sometimes closer but nothing worth waking someone up for, just useless. And then I’m up for the next 2-3 hours because of the adrenaline of it. I’m over this!
Not dependable
I live in Oakland and want this app so I get the alerts. I haven’t been receiving even the notification half the time. If your looking for safety this won’t help much
this app is rocking my world
I love MyShake
Never accurate
Even when the TV says, we’re having an earthquake or we had one an hour ago it doesn’t show it. Chose them all kinds of strange places days ago, but not locally.
Too many nuisance alerts
This app wakes me up in the middle of the night for nothing. It fires an alert for anything above 4.5, and most of the time I don’t even feel anything. There is no way to configure a minimum threshold for triggering alerts and it’s too sensitive so I have to delete this app. It’s a shame because I like the idea. I would use it if I could increase the threshold.
Best
I used this app a lot there are lots of earth quakes in ca and it just told me fasted than google I love this app
Can’t Turn Off
I keep getting a very loud alert of an earthquake that happened yesterday. I’ve turned off gov’t alerts, I’ve deleted the app, I turned my cell phone off completely but I’m still getting very loud alerts.
meh
alerted me to an earthquake after shaking had begun. hard to navigate the minimal features. i’ll just use the usgs website and get regular emergency alerts
MyShake Earthquake Alerts FAQ
- Is MyShake Earthquake Alerts free?
- Yes. The app is free, in all 175 countries it sells in, and it sells nothing inside it.
- Does MyShake Earthquake Alerts have a free trial?
- No. None of its offers (US) come with a free trial.
- What are the best alternatives to MyShake Earthquake Alerts?
- My Earthquake Alerts & Feed (4.7 from 372,862 reviews), Earthquake - alerts and map (4.7 from 263,937 reviews, premium from $4.99) and Tides Near Me (4.8 from 250,845 reviews, premium from $1.99).
MyShake Earthquake Alerts download
Last updated 9 months ago.
MyShake Earthquake Alerts sells in 175 countries. It was released 7 years and 2 months ago, on 17 Jul 2019. It holds a 3.3 rating from 2,018 reviews.
Supports 5 languages: English, Korean, Spanish, Chinese, Vietnamese.
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