Is this an earthquake or another SpaceX launch?

California and UC Berkeley team up to offer earthquake early warning app

California offers a free earthquake early warning app called “MyShake” that is available for download on the Apple App Store and on Google Play. | Credit: MyCheck

Is this an earthquake or a SpaceX launch? To help tell the difference, California offers a free earthquake early warning app called “MyShake” that is available for download on Google Chromebooks or devices using Apple's MacOS operating system.

Fifteen seconds before the 7.0 magnitude earthquake struck off Humboldt County on December 5, nearly half a million people in Northern California received a MyShake alert, giving them some time to get to safety. The next big quake was also felt in the Bay Area, the Dec. 9 quake in western Nevada. MyShake gave a 10-second early warning of a 5.7-magnitude tremor more than 250 miles away.

The MyShake app can give several seconds of warning before an impending earthquake, and records the movement through the citizen scientists' cell phone network. | Adobe Stock

The app was developed at UC Berkeley in 2019 and has been downloaded more than 3.7 million times. The app uses the accelerometer found in every mobile phone to record earthquakes, creating a “citizen scientist” squad of seismographers, developer Richard Allen said. The phones have an unusual ability to detect earthquakes up to 1.5 magnitude and use an algorithm to distinguish them from the normal jiggle of a cell phone in a pocket.

Distributed by both Berkeley and the California Governor's Office of Emergency Services, the app is augmented by the California Earthquake Early Warning System, a computer program run by the U.S. Geological Service called ShakeAlert. The software also delivers information to cell phones and is available at ShakeAlert.org.

MyShake can be downloaded from the Apple App Store and Google Play, and both are available through the California Earthquake Warning website (earthquake.ca.gov) and UC Berkeley's MyShake website (myshake.berkeley.edu). For more information, visit seismic.ca.gov.

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