SD Emergency

This app woke up our house in the middle of the night just now with an earthquake it claimed was 1 mile away but was actually 808 miles away, not even close to San Diego. It rated the distant earthquake as “weak” as it blasted our home with full-volume air-raid style alarms, red emergency screens, and a map showing us and the earthquake in literally different states. Then after a hot minute, it realized the earthquake is 808 away, not 1 mile away as it first assumed, and cancelled the alert. The app clearly has a bug that incorrectly calculates the initial location and distance of an earthquake, causing it to report events that are (1) not close to us and (2) not even close to San Diego. This isn’t the first time this has happened with this app; therefore, we’re deleting it. We don’t want to get woken by false alarms.

Great app! Despite several critics’ reviews below (dating as far back as 6 years), notifications can be personally tailored and are limited to providing helpful information during fires, dangerous heatwaves, and the like. It also is a one-stop repository for disaster preparedness—what to do in an earthquake, fire, tsunami, etc.—and provides up-to-the-minute instructions straight from the source regarding evacuation orders and routes, including maps. Highly recommend for anyone not wanting to wait for the news to learn of a potentially catastrophic event!

Yes, super not helpful…get a notice about a fire nearby and when I open to look??? A notice about getting signed up for earthquake notifications….and it just won’t go away!!!! Deleted and reloaded, tried providing access, still ended up with that notice blocking all access…whomever designed that, now is you microsecond of fame…. Please, for our safety, put your marketing geeks on a leash!!! The government REALLY IS INTERESTED IN KNOWING WHERE WE ARE EVERY MINUTE…but this is offensive and dangerous.

I like how it is easy to get emergency info in one app. But the big problem is I just got a false alarm for a moderate earthquake nearby and nothing happened! Consequently, I disabled the earthquake alert functionality.

I was just woken up two times about a 5.5 mag earthquake one hundred miles from me. Why?! I deleted the app. Love the idea is the app, but if you send a blaring, loud notification about nothing in the middle of the night, the app kinda loses its purpose.

Zero information on the locations or severity of flooding throughout San Diego.

The app seems to give me loud, annoying notifications, which show very little text on the Lock Screen. If I tap on them there, they often don’t appear in the Disaster Info, so I never know what they were about. I have Location Services set to share my location with the app Always. I suspect that the app filters messages not applicable to my location out of Disaster Info, but the developer forgot to apply that filter to Notifications.

I have had this installed for less than 24 hours and it sent a false earthquake alarm. It said earthquake detected one mile from my location and to take cover. However, when I look at the map, it shows the event more than 150 miles from my current location. All the location settings and privileges are enabled and my VPN is off, so those are not the problem. If I cannot trust emergency alerts from an emergency alert application then it is useless. Advice to the product owner for this project: do not enable features in a beta state for this type of software. An emergency alert application should be reliable and well tested or not available for download at all.

The earthquake alerts go off for any earthquake in the state regardless of distance! Please fix this!

I really liked this app cool features. Then it wanted me to update for earthquake alerts apparently makes your phone shake. Anyway now it is stuck with the new feature staring me in the face but I can’t close it move it or do anything else it is frozen. Supposedly there is an update which might fix it but I cant find that. Don’t want to delete and lose my info.