Disaster Alert is a free mobile app for public use that provides the global community with critical hazard alerts and information needed to stay safe anywhere in the world. Built on PDC’s DisasterAWARE platform, Disaster Alert offers near real-time updates about 18 different types of natural hazards as they are unfolding around the globe.
With Disaster Alert, you can customize early warning alerts, view estimated impact reports, and access visualized modeled hazard data. Disaster Alert’s continuous stream of new information is automatically generated from the most reliable, scientifically verified sources. When no official source is available, alerts are updated manually by Pacific Disaster Center, presenting only a small lapse of time between the time of an event and the availability of information in the system.
Hazard updates provided with Disaster Alert include only active hazards. “Active Hazards” are part of a collection of recent incidents that have been designated as potentially hazardous to people, property, or assets by PDC.
INCLUDED HAZARD TYPES
*Automatically processed in near real time:Hurricanes (tropical cyclones / typhoons), earthquakes, tsunamis, volcanos, floods, wildfires, U.S. tornados and winter storms.
*Manually Processed: Marine hazards, storms, droughts, and manmade incidents. High surf advisories, high winds, and flash floods are available for Hawaii only.
NEW IN VERSION 7.5.4
*Default theme: The PDC theme has been applied as the default theme in Disaster Alert. The PDC theme integrates DisasterAWARE branding, colors, and iconography. Different themes may be applied from the User Preferences menu.
*Multi-language login and registration: Disaster Alert users will be able to login and register in a variety of supported languages other than English. There is a dropdown selector at the top of the form that allows the user to change the language option.
*Onboarding: We have introduced a new first-time user app setup feature Disaster Alert to allow customization of the alert location and hazard severity. This screen is displayed for all users upon update from prior version(s) to 7.5.4 as well as new installations. Users will be given the option to sign op, login, or skip directly to Disaster Alert as a guest without an account. Alert preferences may only be customized by registered users.
*User registration email: Disaster Alert now supports additional registration email formats for plusaddressed (aka sub-addressed) email formats for new user registration forms.
OTHER KEY FEATURES
*Customizable alerts based on your geographic area of interest and hazard severity
*When the map tip is activated by selecting a hazard on the map, users can get estimated impact information by choosing the "More Info" link and viewing Hazard Brief.
* Interactive map interface displays 18 different types of active hazards
*Customizable background maps
*Map layers with overlays for population densities, global cloud coverage, and more.
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User Rating
3.85 out of 5
26 ratings
in Australia
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Handy app
Easy to use. Works very well.
For an old incident, if there’s an update, a
notification is received; but it’s not clear what’s been updated. Maybe there can be a flag of some sort, identifying the update.
Great app however. Happy to recommend.
Too much
This app is very useful, however, living in Australia I am not interested in instant alerts of bushfires in america or floods in India etc. it would be great if we could select an area of the globe that interests me, to get urgent alerts and the rest of the workd non-urgent alerts. We can select an area of interest, but that doesnt seem to do anything
Good App: Some changes to make it amazing
If you could isolate the region for the alerts it would be special!
Good app
The app seems to work well. But I was wondering why there never seems to be any alerts for New Zealand showing? They tend to have a lot of earthquakes and there are never any notifications.
Hate the updated version
I have enjoyed this app for year and found it brilliant. Sad to say the updated version is clumsy and difficult to navigate around the globe. I hope the developers go back to the old version.
Fantastic app
Real time, info filled & reliable app that keeps me in the know on global news that all of us should be kept up to date with
Updated Version
I don’t like the updated version. I prefer the older version. It was much easier to read and appeared on the screen faster. I have no idea what some the symbols mean, esp the coloured dots. We recently travelled to Japan and I used the old App to navigate around the islands by train. This new app is not clear enough to be able to do that. Please provide the old app as an alternative for those of us that need it. Very disappointed.
Updated version
I enjoy the and it is very handy for my line of work as it gives instant alerts to disasters and quite accurate information BUT I must agree with some of the other users, the updated version is harder to navégate, I have given myself time to get used to it but unfortunately still prefer the previous version so hope that note is being taken from this comments.
Thank you for your service
Harry
Frozen tip page bug
I too am having the same issue with the app freezing on the tip page
Is a ‘fix’ intended to be released?
Not working
Have used this app before and had no problems. However, the new version gives me a screen with tips only and I have tried to download many times but still just get a tips page and nothing else - whats happened???