My Earthquake Alerts Pro

This app is solid for real time information and notifications about recent quakes. Updates you within a minute of a quake. Good features and filtering, clean UI, except for: My one and only gripe with this app is that recent earthquakes show up on the map as red push pins. Most other earthquake sites use different sized circles to designate the magnitude of an earthquake, making it very easy to find bigger earthquakes on a map quickly. As it stands now every earthquake, big or small, shows up as a red pin, and here in SoCal, if you filter for quakes of “all” magnitudes”, you’re going to get a literal forest of pins, making it impossible to find the one you want. Even with filtering, there is no easy way to tell the difference between a big quake and a little quake on the map at a glance. To me, this seems like such a simple thing to implement, the data on magnitude is already there. I would sacrifice load times even if it meant changing the pins to variable circles. If this were fixed I’d easily give this app 5+ stars.

This is a nice, clean, & well thought out app. It’s fairly simple to go through the settings & get it working to your liking. I also found it to be worth it to pay to go ad-free. I think earthquakes in the time of COVID, in Alaska no less, demand my complete focus. 🤣🤣 Ads were like batting off flies or bumble bees! Couldn’t focus at all. Now, it feels quite a bit smoother & the developer has a few more bucks. Works for me. 🥳🥳🥳 A few wishlist items: ⭐️The ability to choose more than one location for the ‘recents’ list. As it stands, you may choose one or all. It would be nice to be able to choose 3 or 4 or 5. It would be *really* nice! ⭐️And a quick link to get to the USGS page for your region or for a specific quake - without being ejected from the app! But this remains a pretty nice little app and useful! So it hets a 5 from me. 🙂🙃

This app ( after trying this for a couple of weeks) has an interface which is almost unusable. There is no way to locate earthquakes near you. All it does is present lots of data. Overall, pretty useless. [Developer responded helpfully.] I appreciate the responsiveness of the developer. The UI needs a major revamp. When you think about it, most want easy access to the close earthquakes, then for the curious, the most recent or the biggest ones. None of this is easily or intuitively available. The data is there, just not presented well. The good news is that much could he improved with a modest change in design.