(KRON) If you live in the Bay Area you want and need to know about the latest earthquake.
Friday U.C. Berkeley scientists released the “MyShake” App to help keep you safe.
This is the first earthquake detecting app for Android phones.KRON4’s EARTHQUAKE PAGE
A similar app will soon be out for iPhones.
The new technology being developed at UC Berkeley has been in the testing phase for quite some time. And it could warn the public when an earthquake is about to hit.
“The technology already exists to get an earthquake warning on your smartphone. All they need now is the funding,” Seismologist Richard Allen said.
“Earthquake. Drop cover and hold on. Strong shaking expected,” the app would say.
The app would give you a countdown to the next earthquake right when it’s about to strike. As an example, it’s simulating the Loma Prieta earthquake.
Depending where you were, some people could have known up to 20 seconds before the shaking.
“It gets the location of the earthquake, the size of the earthquake, and it tells you what to expect at your location,” Allen said.
Seismologists have been testing the technology for three years. And it works.