GeoNet Quake User Reviews

GeoNet Quake
GeoNet Quake
NEW ZEALAND INSTITUTE FOR EARTH SCIENCE LIMITED

Customer Experience

Positive experience58.0% of reviews
Neutral18.8% of reviews
Negative experience23.2% of reviews

~ Based on 69 written reviews from the US App Store.

Is GeoNet Quake Safe?

GeoNet Quake appears safe based on user ratings. AppsHunter Safety Score for GeoNet Quake is 92/100.

This assessment is based on 155 user ratings, with an App Store average of 4.7/5.

Safety Analysis

94.8% of ratings point to a safe experience
3.9% of ratings suggest some concerns
1.3% of ratings point to a risky experience

~ Based on 155 App Store ratings for GeoNet Quake.

Is GeoNet Quake Legit?

GeoNet Quake appears to be a legitimate app. AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for GeoNet Quake is 85/100.

Based on 85 of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.

Top reviews

Hard to Read

Please support dark mode. The blazing white pages with tiny black text are hard to read.

Exact position

Why can’t we have the latitude and longitude of the earthquake.

Maori

Didn’t need the Maori language added

Extremely useful

Extremely useful app especially living in Wellington. Can I please request adding “critical alert notification” so I can get a warning while it’s in silent mode or in focus mode please?

Useless for reporting quake intensity

Whenever I submit a quake it just spins for minutes - end up having to close the app. If you don’t have the capacity to receive intensity reports then don’t offer it as an option.

Notifications don't work for many years

I've been emailing them since last year, that the notifications don't work since at least 2-3 years now. Haven't gotten any reply. Tried calling since December but only go to voicemail. Terrible support.

Love this app but one thing…

The app is great, thank you for it.
However the one thing that is annoying is that when you set alerts for quake sensitivity there is no way to save that setting so that it stays there permanently.
As soon as you exit the app then return it defaults back to week.
You shouldn’t have to keep the app running permanently in the background to maintain the settings as that is one more drain on batteries.
If that could be fixed as far as I’m concerned the app is perfect.
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Face lift and Apple Watch app

I’m giving this 5 stars because it’s a good app to get information from quakes but I think needs an new facelift and give Apple Watch users app to check quakes in the area

Alerts/ advisories and routine information

The site, while useful and interesting could in my opinion improve by segregating the alerts it sends out to be genuine alerts/advisories and separate the routine activity of providing reports/updates and background information.

Getting a lot of unnoticeable data

I’ve had this app for well over 10+years and it has been amazing. For the last 2 or so years I have struggled to get some of the earthquakes that I have selected over light and above. What I do get. And have had today alone approx 8 unnoticeable earthquakes! Others I know do not get these on their app. And then when I do refresh. I get some that occurred yesterday that are over my weak and above. Yet I don’t get those notifications when they do occur. I deleted the app and reinstalled it. But it is still the same for me. What has changed? I am sick of my phone notifying me of irrelevant earthquakes as I do not feel I should get those!
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Pushes non-urgent “stories”

This app is great, except that there’s no way to opt out of their newsletter spam without completely disabling notifications, which completely defeats the purpose of having a quake alert app.

I get that you want to write newsletters and articles, and that’s great. Can you get that I’m not remotely interested in them and let me disable push notifications for them?
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Only in New Zealand you say? Pity!

Subject tells it all.
Seems like a marvellous app, but is limited to New Zealand only. Pity!

Fast and always working

I can go to the app 5 seconds after an earthquake and the details are there. It seems to handle lots of people using it at the same time.

Not Updating

I have an apple watch and im getting notified on that when there is an earthquake over 5 as I have filtered but its not showing on the app on my phone. I can refresh several times and it wont show up. I have played around with the settings but nothing works. My app is up to date. It will eventually show up but usually hours later
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No longer shared with me

I use my app all the time, keep a track of all the activities around NZ, however, tried to check this morning and it’s no longer shared with me - can you tell me why please?

Inaccurate

Prefer USGS over geonet for NZ quakes. This is inaccurate and magnitudes change all the time

False alerts

I keep getting alerts saying earthquake with unnoticeable shaking near Whanganui. Alerts come in once a week at random times.

The best app ever

all I can say is that the app is cool

Gonet

EXCELLENT

Geonet

Awesome being able to check quakes and Really informative love it. Check it just about daily. Keep up the good work 😊