Quakes - Earthquake Notifications iPhone App

Category	Price	Seller	Device
Weather	Free	Eric Lu	iPhone, iPad, iPod

Malfunction
inquireing mind wants to know.

Is this app not working properly, it’s only doing about half of its functionality?

App won’t load in iOS 13
ProfessionalMech

I downloaded this app about a couple of years ago, and it worked fine, but when iOS 13 released i started having issues and now the app won’t load

Great on the iPhone, frustrating on the iPad
AA6TC

I use this on the iPhone a lot. It’s intuitive, easy to use, shows patterns and trends - and I appreciate how the alert zone can be set up. But on the iPad, it’s layout is frustrating to the point of being unusable. It’s display formatting is bad, data goes offscreen even though there is plenty of white space on screen, and you can’t change the format to suit your preferences. I deleted it from the iPad, and can’t recommend it enough on the iPhone.

Put back the MAP option!!!
Game nut666

Update..still not showing where a particular quake is when it happens-STILL not fixed. There used to be a Map link that you could touch and it would bring you right to where the quake happened on the map. It’s gone. My husband goes to Japan often, and when there’s a quake there, I WANT TO SEE WHERE THAT QUAKE IS!! FIX IT!! ——- Terrible update when you take away a good feature! I would give it zero stars if I could. You took away the map option to bring you to that quake. I also find it frustrating not to be able to move the map all the way around, in the Pacific. You can't go beyond a certain point going west and have to go all the way east to get there, or vice versa. It's hard to explain, but the app needs to be able to go 360 all the way around in one direction or the other.

Wrong Country/Location Name
blue dog fish

I used this App for many years and I really like its quick notifications and accuracy. However, I think it did not follow a common sense rule, and replaced “Taiwan” (Republic of China) to “Japan” since about a year ago. For example, the latest 5.7 magnitude quake happened on October 23, UTC time 4:34 AM at 104 KM east of Taiwan, but this App shows it happened in “Japan”. I think the App developers need to re-take some Geography training. Don’t you know this particular earthquake center is 600+ KM away from the nearest Japan island Okinawa? Or, don’t you know Taiwan is NOT part of Japan and NOT part of Mainland China either? Why don’t you just change California or Hawaii to Japan next time? The computer system will not make such mistakes. Only human being can make such things happened, but that’s not called a mistake - but called discrimination!

Not useful at all.
747whaledriver

Unresponsive app developer. Notification of an earthquake will give magnitude and area of location but, usually, you can’t find the location in the map. Even the list of earthquakes for a U.S. state or magnitude doesn’t list an large magnitude earthquake within 65 to 90 minutes of the notification—if at all. The pins indicating earthquake epicenters change location by as much as 600 miles when shrinking or expanding maps. What looks like an earthquake in your town is likely to have occurred elsewhere. Many epicenters are mis-plotted. The maps don’t show all the earthquakes that happen in an area until you get down to a scale so small you can’t see activity overall: thus, you can’t determine trends in the seismic activity. In essence, this app is of little scientific or professional value, and thus should be considered useful for entertainment purposes only if even that.

Not very usefullousy;
747whaledriver

The pins indicating earthquake epicenter change location by as much as 600 miles when shrinking or expanding maps. Notification of an earthquake will give magnitude and location but, usually, you can’t find the location. Even the list of earthquakes for a U.S. state or magnitude doesn’t list an earthquake of large magnitude within 3 or 4 minutes of the notification. Many earthquake epicenters are mis-plotted. . The maps don’t show all the earthquakes that happen in an area until you get down to a scale so small you can’t see all the activity. You can’t determine trends in the seismic activity. In essence, this app is of little scientific or professional value, and thus should be considered useful for entertainment purposes only.

Current revision is broken.
ScottyJGA

Loading the “about” page causes a web page to display, followed by a frame load error. The problem report link fails on a 404. Push notifications are always on and the minimum magnitude is ignored. The switch for notifications always appears to be off, but turning it on has no effect and the next time the app is started it is off again. The notifications keep coming regardless. Sloppy coding.

Not very useful
747whaledriver

The pins indicating earthquake epicenter change location by as much as 600 miles when shrinking or expanding maps. Notification of an earthquake will give magnitude and location but, usually, you can’t find the location. Even the list of earthquakes for a U.S. state or magnitude doesn’t list an earthquake of large magnitude within 3 or 4 minutes of the notification. Many earthquake epicenters are mis-plotted. . The maps don’t show all the earthquakes that happen in an area until you get down to a scale so small you can’t see all the activity. You can’t determine trends in the seismic activity. In essence, this app is of little scientific or professional value, and thus should be considered useful for entertainment purposes only.

Where're are the detailed location names?
zriptide

Quakes used to be my favorite app and have had it both on my iPad and iPhone since it first came out and recommended it everyone I know. Version 3 is bust, however. I live on the coast of Southern California and on all list screens any quake 1.0 or higher gets listed as "California" and I have to drill down to figure out where it was in relation to my location. Even on the default map it is awkward to figure out the exact location without lots of zooming, especially on an iPhone because everything is now generically labeled by broad region labels, e.g. California, Alaska, Washington, or China, Japan, Mexico, etc. in list view it almost impossible to figure out any quake trends by specific location. In earlier versions the location of the quake was much more detailed. Also, while it is fine to set the message notification level, the main list screen shows all quakes above 1.0 magnitude so the list is really long and very unspecific as to location -- not only for California but the rest of the world. It would be nice to set the lower limit a bit higher. Last, while the map is impressive, it would be nice to have the option to set one of the lists as the default screen. If you can fix these new changes or let us access the earlier versions you'll get a big five star thanks,