ShakeAlarm was a weather app developed by Weir-Jones Group. It was removed from Google Play Jan 18, 2025 and is no longer available for download.
Download Statistics
ShakeAlarm had been downloaded 1.3 thousand times before it became unavailable.
User Ratings
ShakeAlarm was rated 4.17 out of 5 stars, based on 12 ratings.
App Information
ShakeAlarm was free to download. The APK download size was 29.32 MB. The last available version was 3.3. The last update was on November 12, 2023.
Technical Requirements
ShakeAlarm required Android 8.0+ or higher. The app had a content rating of Everyone. The app had been available on Google Play October 2018.
Description
ShakeAlarm is the first commercialized Earthquake Early Warning System (EEWS) in Canada and the United States. We provide early warnings directly to users SmartPhones in Vancouver, the Sunshine Coast and Vancouver Island in Southern British Columbia. We also have ShakeAlarm nodes at limited sites in Washington and Oregon States.
ShakeAlarm has been operational 99.9999% of the time over the last ten years of service, and has never once issued a false alarm. ShakeAlarm protects users of the George Massey Tunnel in Delta and since installed, has protected over 250,000,000 tunnel users - without a single false alarm. ShakeAlarm has been completely developed in the private sector and has no public or tax dollar investment.
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★★★★★
Provides myself & family with the information about pending Earthquakes in our location.
★★★★★
Earthquake early warning in South western British Columbia, delivered directly to your smartphone. Excellent free service, could save your kid in the event of a devastating earthquake.
★★★★★
A shake alarm can really help you to be prepared for earthquakes as primary as secondary waves of motion do occur.better than a wind chime that has metal tubes hanging on suspended strings tubes close to each other to sound out yet this downloadable appt registers motion in a particular location to help alert and chart the intensities.
★★☆☆☆
I'm suspicious because the app asks for permission to record audio, and no reason is given why. I denied it. Based on how the app is described as working (receiving warnings from the internet based on their network of seismograph stations), it has no reason to listen to what I'm saying. Edit: I certainly do appreciate the efforts of the developers creating this app, my review should not be misconstrued as insulting that effort. However - The explanation that it requires permission to record audio so that a message can be left for children is not acceptable. The app itself has no controls at all. There is currently no way within the app to create such a message, no indication that this is the purpose for the permission, and no indication that this feature will be added in an upcoming version. Therefore, users must be cautious. For Shake Alarm's own good in a world where people are paranoid about their devices inappropriately listening to them, in the app's current form the audio recording permission should not be present.
★★☆☆☆
It only allows me to set locations in Canada. Why not ask for location services and expand outside of Canada?
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