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Re: Tsunami Warning for Northern California

#53

Interesting observation: I am in a circumstance where I am transitioning from an Android phone (Samsung Galaxy) to a iPhone. I observed that android phone alerted me about an earthquake and that I should be ready to feel tremors. To my surprise as I was pondering how this system works - especially wrt to latency - where it alerts me head of time, I then fell small tremors in 2 or 3 seconds after the alert. The tremor…

yep, the iphone is comparably terrible in this area, even with the myshake app

Re: Tsunami Warning for Northern California

#55

Interesting observation: I am in a circumstance where I am transitioning from an Android phone (Samsung Galaxy) to a iPhone. I observed that android phone alerted me about an earthquake and that I should be ready to feel tremors. To my surprise as I was pondering how this system works - especially wrt to latency - where it alerts me head of time, I then fell small tremors in 2 or 3 seconds after the alert. The tremor…

I have an android (pixel 7), and I got not alert for earthquake or tsunami. IOS users around me got alerted for the magnitude 7, not entirely sure about the tsunami

My iPhone was 3-4 minutes behind my Android device on this one.

Re: Tsunami Warning for Northern California

#56

This webcam should let us know in a few minutes if this is real: https://www.pacificblue.biz/noyo-harbor-webcam/ Edit: arrival time has come and gone. No indication of movement in water level.

Down now. Went out around 14:21 ET

It's back

Re: Tsunami Warning for Northern California

#57

This webcam should let us know in a few minutes if this is real: https://www.pacificblue.biz/noyo-harbor-webcam/ Edit: arrival time has come and gone. No indication of movement in water level.

Down now. Went out around 14:21 ET

I think it just times out after a while, comes back up refreshing the page, but the page seems to be getting hugged now. A twitch stream it ain't.

Re: Tsunami Warning for Northern California

#58

Interesting observation: I am in a circumstance where I am transitioning from an Android phone (Samsung Galaxy) to a iPhone. I observed that android phone alerted me about an earthquake and that I should be ready to feel tremors. To my surprise as I was pondering how this system works - especially wrt to latency - where it alerts me head of time, I then fell small tremors in 2 or 3 seconds after the alert. The tremor…

i've also observed android to be consistently faster on these alerts

Re: Tsunami Warning for Northern California

#59

Interesting observation: I am in a circumstance where I am transitioning from an Android phone (Samsung Galaxy) to a iPhone. I observed that android phone alerted me about an earthquake and that I should be ready to feel tremors. To my surprise as I was pondering how this system works - especially wrt to latency - where it alerts me head of time, I then fell small tremors in 2 or 3 seconds after the alert. The tremor…

It doesn't sound like the iPhone was behind, but rather warning about something else? It's interesting that Android didn't warn about the tsunami at all, even though that sounds more important than the barely noticable tremors you describe.

Re: Tsunami Warning for Northern California

#60

Interesting observation: I am in a circumstance where I am transitioning from an Android phone (Samsung Galaxy) to a iPhone. I observed that android phone alerted me about an earthquake and that I should be ready to feel tremors. To my surprise as I was pondering how this system works - especially wrt to latency - where it alerts me head of time, I then fell small tremors in 2 or 3 seconds after the alert. The tremor…

I'm not sure what you need to configure, but you can definitely get iPhone alerts to arrive before you feel the earthquake. Not sure why your iPhone didn't alert you while your android did as it should be from the same local data source.

I really wish we had something like NERV but for SF, NERV works so well whenever I'm in Japan. It will literally show you a countdown of exactly when you'll feel it and it's very accurate, and you can see a livemap of monitoring stations reporting it in real time as the wave makes its way towards you.

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