Seismo
Earthquake alerts, in real time
Seismo sends an alert to your phone when an earthquake happens in a country you follow — starting from the magnitude you choose.
Free · No account required · Android, iOS and Huawei
Seismo
Seismo sends an alert to your phone when an earthquake happens in a country you follow — starting from the magnitude you choose.
Free · No account required · Android, iOS and Huawei
Real-time earthquake data, filtered down to the events that actually concern you.
Pick the country you want to follow and set its own notification magnitude — M4.0 where you live, M6.0 somewhere you only visit. Seismo Pro lets you follow several countries.
Silence alerts overnight, but pick a magnitude that always gets through. A M3.2 will not wake you; a M6.5 will.
Magnitude, depth, coordinates and local time at the epicentre for every event, updated continuously.
Epicentres plotted on a map you can pan and zoom, with circle size scaled to magnitude. Set a minimum magnitude right on the map and list to hide small tremors.
Earthquake counts, largest event, average magnitude and depth distribution for today, the last 7 days and the last 30 days in every country you follow.
The whole interface — including country names and the text of the notifications themselves — in 74 languages.
Seismo combines reports from dozens of official seismological agencies — USGS and EMSC worldwide, plus national services such as AFAD and Kandilli, SGC, FUNVISIS, IGP, SSN, BMKG and JMA.
For each earthquake Seismo shows an approximate number of people who may have felt it — on the map, in the list and on the detail page.
Choose a short or long notification sound, and add the home-screen widget on Android or iOS to see the latest earthquake at a glance.
On Android TV the earthquake alert appears over whatever you are watching, with sound. On Apple TV it appears full screen while Seismo is open. Open the details with your remote.
On Wear OS and Apple Watch, the watch app, tile and complication show the latest earthquake at a glance.
With Seismo Pro, follow several countries where family and friends live, each with its own magnitude threshold.
Three steps when you first open the app, and you are done.
Choose at least one country or region to follow. You can add or remove them later in Settings.
Set the minimum magnitude for the list, then a notification magnitude for each country separately.
Grant the notification permission when the system asks. Without it your filters are saved, but nothing can reach you.
Almost every “I'm not getting earthquake notifications” report comes down to one of these four things. Work through them in order.
Open Settings → Notifications. Following a country is not the same as enabling alerts for it: each country has its own alert toggle and its own notification magnitude. If every country is muted, no push will ever be sent.
If a country is set to M5.0, a M4.4 nearby will appear in the list but will not trigger a notification. For a country you live in, M4.0–4.5 is a sensible starting point; lower it if you want more.
Android 13+ and iOS both require an explicit permission. If you dismissed the prompt, the app shows a banner and keeps your settings — alerts start arriving the moment you allow notifications in system settings.
During quiet hours only earthquakes at or above your override magnitude get through. With quiet hours 23:00–07:00 and an override of M6.0, a M5.1 at 02:00 is silenced by design.
Settings has a “Not receiving notifications?” screen that tests push support, registration with the notification service, the system permission, the earthquake alerts channel, your followed regions, quiet hours and battery restrictions one by one, and tells you which one is failing. It can also send a test notification to your device straight away.
Seismo labels every earthquake on the same scale it uses in the app. Use it to decide where to set your alert threshold.
| Magnitude | Label in the app | What people typically notice |
|---|---|---|
| < 2.0 | Micro | Not felt. Recorded by instruments only. |
| 2.0 – 2.9 | Minor | Rarely felt, and only by people at rest indoors. |
| 3.0 – 3.9 | Small | Often felt indoors, like a lorry passing. No damage. |
| 4.0 – 4.9 | Moderate | Felt clearly by most people nearby. Windows and dishes rattle; damage is unlikely. |
| 5.0 – 5.9 | Strong | Felt by everyone in the area. Poorly built structures can be damaged. |
| 6.0 – 6.9 | Very Strong | Destructive up to roughly a hundred kilometres away in populated areas. |
| 7.0 – 7.9 | Major | Serious damage over a wide area. |
| 8.0 + | Great | Severe destruction across hundreds of kilometres. |
How strongly an earthquake is felt also depends on depth, distance and ground conditions: a shallow M4.5 a few kilometres away can feel stronger than a deep M5.5 hundreds of kilometres away. Seismo shows the depth for every event.
The words you see in the app and in the news — and what they actually mean.
The questions we are asked by email most often.
No account, no advertising profile, no invented numbers.
The app never requests GPS or location access. You choose countries from a list instead.
Nothing to sign up for. Your device gets an anonymous identifier and that is all we hold.
Per-country thresholds and quiet hours mean you decide what is worth a buzz — not us.
Install Seismo and set your countries and magnitudes in about a minute.