PSA: if you have the MyShake app installed with earthquake notifications enabled, it may make your phone scream “EARTHQUAKE” at 2 AM for an earthquake that’s hundreds of miles away. Ask me how I know. 😵💫
@bwebster I can well imagine! o.O
I lived in Cali for a bit, and will never forget the night I began falling asleep, only to think my SO had come in and kicked the bed. He had not. It was a smallish earthquake. :/ We lived on the Hayward fault, so I was lucky!
@bwebster Naive question, from a New Englander who has never experienced a quake: Does whoever sends these alerts know about a quake before you feel it? Or is it a confirmation of something you’d know, like when the power company sends me a text saying I’ve lost power five minutes after my neighborhood goes dark?
@mitch From what I’ve read, the detection systems catch it early enough that it can give people at least a few seconds warning before they start to feel it. Even that little time can be useful… assuming the quake isn’t 250 frickin’ miles away at 2 AM. 🤦♂️