# Volcanoes & Earthquakes — Earthquake & Volcano Alerts

> Global map and list of earthquakes and active volcanoes with alerts. (iPhone/iPad app by Tom Pfeiffer.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/volcanoes-and-earthquakes/id1449389566 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [Tom Pfeiffer](https://appshunter.io/developer/1449389565)
- Category: Weather, News
- Price: Free with in-app purchases
- Rating: 4.80/5 from 385 App Store ratings · 76 written reviews indexed
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 15.0 · 34 MB
- Languages: American English, French (France), German (Germany), Greek, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese (Simplified, China) and 2 more
- Released: 2019-01-25
- Data updated: 2026-09-07
- Monetization: free with in-app purchases
- User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/volcanoes-and-earthquakes/id1449389566/reviews.md

## What is Volcanoes & Earthquakes?

Get faster earthquake alerts and track volcano activity worldwide.

Volcanoes & Earthquakes delivers real-time notifications, a live global map, and detailed seismic and volcanic data—so you always know what’s happening first.

Explore recent earthquakes and active volcanoes on an interactive map or in clear, easy-to-read lists. Customize alerts and filters to focus on what matters most to you.

Key Features

Fast earthquake alerts – be notified instantly  
Live global map – earthquakes and volcanoes worldwide  
Detailed data – magnitude, depth, location, and more  
Custom alerts – filter by magnitude, distance, or region  
Local alerts – earthquakes near your location  
Active volcanoes – eruptions, alerts, and activity status  
Volcano news – latest updates and reports  

Earthquake archive back to 1900

Explore historical earthquakes worldwide  
Search by date, magnitude, or location  
Discover major past events and seismic trends  

Tsunami alerts

Stay informed during major seismic events  
Get alerts for potential tsunami situations  

Advanced tools

Multiple data sources (50+ national and international agencies)  
Plate boundaries and tectonic context  
Earthquakes near volcanoes  
“I felt it” reports and community feedback  
Offline access with cached data  

Data is continuously updated from trusted global sources.  
Learn more at https://app.volcanoesandearthquakes.com/

Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

## Key features

- Latest earthquakes on map and list
- Active volcano tracking
- Customizable earthquake and volcano alerts
- Filter earthquakes by magnitude, age, and distance
- Volcanic Ash Advisory (VAAC) lookup
- Submit and view felt earthquake reports
- Offline access with cached data

## Pricing and in-app purchases

Base price: Free.

**Subscriptions**

| Subscription | Price | Period |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Push Notifications 1 month | $0.99 | per month |
| Push notifications 12 months | $9.99 | per year |

**One-time purchases**

| Purchase | Price | Type |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Pro Upgrade (Lifetime) | $9.99 | one-time |
| Legacy Pro Upgrade | $4.99 | one-time |


## What do users think of Volcanoes & Earthquakes?

Overall sentiment: mixed

**Pros**

- 🚀 Fast reporting of earthquakes
- 👍 Informative and accurate data
- 👍 Great for tracking volcanic activity
- 👍 Good for commercial pilots and drone companies
- 👍 Useful for verifying felt earthquakes
- 👍 Detailed earthquake information
- 👍 Two-in-one earthquake and volcano alerts
- 👍 Fast alerts compared to news agencies
- 👍 Comprehensive data on earthquakes and volcanoes
- 👍 Good overview of seismic and volcanic activity
- 👍 State-of-the-art accuracy
- 👍 Provides information ahead of media
- 👍 Precise information
- 👍 Well-laid out and straightforward
- 👍 Improved since recent updates
- 👍 Perfect reporting
- 👍 Nice app, improved with update
- 👍 Excellent app, used for 10 years
- 👍 App is now even better after update
- 👍 Actively being improved
- 👍 Great for monitoring activity
- 👍 Functional and fast interface
- 👍 Simple but effective app
- 👍 Very functional and fast
- 👍 Quick and efficient reporting
- 👍 Detailed information of quake and history
- 👍 Best volcano discovery app
- 👍 Most in-depth earthquake app
- 👍 Great detail, map layout, informative
- 👍 Custom locations with premium version
- 👍 Excellent service, good information
- 👍 Clear and current app

**Cons**

- 🐛 Unusable after updates
- 🐛 Missing fault zones
- 🐛 Volcano data not updating
- 🐛 Cannot get earthquakes higher than 3 without paying
- 🐛 Unstable, won't open after update
- 🐛 No alarms, nothing works
- 🐛 Settings and notifications need TLC
- 🐛 Not in German
- 🐛 App supports MAGA (political statement)
- 🐛 Volcano alerts stopped working
- 🐛 App hasn't been updated in years
- 🐛 News feeds sometimes fail to load
- 🐛 Volcanoes stopped updating
- 🐛 Doesn't update
- 🐛 App hasn't been updated in over 4 years
- 🐛 Volcanoes stopped updating a couple of weeks back
- 🐛 News feeds sometimes produce a good page 2 & 3 however page 1 fails to load
- 🐛 Volcano section has not updated
- 🐛 Volcanoes not updating
- 🐛 Volcanoes cannot be displayed
- 🐛 Not refreshing or giving accurate information
- 🐛 Ads in the 'paid' version
- 🐛 Not in Russian
- 🐛 Android friendly only, iOS is a disaster
- 🐛 No Pro option for Apple
- 🐛 App constantly asks to cut and paste from Telegram
- 🐛 Volcano information not updating
- 🐛 Eruption still says 'erupting' after it ended
- 🐛 Crashes when going to notifications
- 🐛 Scam app, doesn't show earthquakes
- 🐛 Poorly developed on iOS
- 🐛 Keeps asking to copy and paste notes
- 🐛 Settings have no definition for buttons
- 🐛 Buggy, doesn't load well
- 🐛 Opens different pages for no reason
- 🐛 Free version information is very limited
- 🐛 Misses a lot of quakes (Pro version)
- 🐛 Map not up to date for iOS
- 🐛 Cookies cannot be controlled properly
- 🐛 Dated interface
- 🐛 Free side is as informative as purchased side
- 🐛 Confusing, kept telling to update with no update available
- 🐛 App performance is buggy
- 🐛 Lags a lot with map feature
- 🐛 Live updates sometimes don't show up
- 🐛 No live updates for Iceland volcano
- 🐛 Does not show active volcano in Iceland
- 🐛 No webcams shown for Iceland volcano
- 🐛 Not updated since 2019
- 🐛 Still shows ads in Pro version
- 🐛 Iceland volcano missing
- 🐛 No orange or red symbol in Iceland
- 🐛 Ads in paid version
- 🐛 Trouble upgrading, constant update messages
- 🐛 Pro-version still has massive ad banners
- 🐛 Lists load over each other, corrupted display
- 🐛 Pro Version has Google Ads
- 🐛 Lacks personalized alarm sounds
- 🐛 Paid version has ads
- 🐛 Ads in paid version

**Commonly reported bugs**

- Entries shown without description
- Page not found for earthquake reports
- Volcano data not updating
- App is unstable and won't open
- Earthquakes higher than 3 not available for free
- Settings and notifications are unclear
- Volcano alerts stopped working
- App not updated for years
- News feeds fail to load
- Volcanoes stopped updating
- App doesn't update
- Volcanoes stopped updating
- News feeds page 1 fails to load
- Volcano section not updating
- Volcanoes not updating
- Volcanoes cannot be displayed
- App not refreshing or giving accurate information
- Ads in paid version
- iOS app is a disaster
- Settings are incomprehensible
- Impossible to report earthquake on iOS
- Interface looks like free resources
- No Pro option for Apple
- App constantly asks to cut and paste from Telegram
- Volcano information not updating
- Eruption status incorrect
- Crashes when accessing notifications
- App doesn't show earthquakes
- Poorly developed on iOS
- Keeps asking to copy and paste notes
- Settings have no definition for buttons
- App is buggy and doesn't load well
- Opens different pages for no reason
- Misses earthquakes over mag 4
- Map not up to date for iOS
- Cookies cannot be controlled properly
- App performance is buggy
- Lags with map feature
- Live updates sometimes don't show up
- No live updates for Iceland volcano
- Does not show active volcano in Iceland
- No webcams shown for Iceland volcano
- Not updated since 2019
- Still shows ads in Pro version
- Trouble upgrading, constant update messages
- Pro-version still has massive ad banners
- Lists load over each other, corrupted display

**Most requested features**

- More fault zones covered
- More details about extinct and sea mount volcanoes
- Improve settings and notifications
- Add German language option
- Add Russian language option
- Add Pro Upgrade option for iOS
- Add a timeline feature for earthquakes
- Add personalized alarm sounds
- Allow control over cookies (Reject All function)
- Update the app
- Fix bugs
- Fix corrupted display in lists
- Add sound alarms

## Recent user reviews (10 of 76)

All indexed reviews: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/volcanoes-and-earthquakes/id1449389566/reviews.md

### 4/5 — I can’t access Reports

*2026-08-27*

Why can’t I access Reports

### 5/5 — Volcanoes & Earthquakes

*2026-08-19*

Sehr geehrte Damen und Herren, Sehr geehrtes Earthquake & Volcano Service Team, hiermit möchte ich Ihnen mitteilen das diese App für Leien wie für Profis eine tolle Möglichkeit bietet, die durch ihre Einstellungen und welcher Bereich einem wichtiger ist, diesen hervorzuheben. Wer auf Vulkane  seinen Fokus legt hat hier diese Einstellmöglichkeiten und braucht keine zwei App‘s. Es ist für den Leien wie für den Profi eine gute Möglichkeit hier den Ereignisverlauf gut zu verfolgen. 
Es ist toll wenn man das Engmaschige Spinnennetz der Vulkane verfolgt, auch bei Erdbeben und man kann schon einiges erkennen und verfolgen wie es auch Verstehen, was jetzt passiert. 
Hier bin ich gespannt auf das nächste Abdate für diese App und was für neue Erkenntnisse wie Möglichkeiten sich in dieser App zeigen.
Ein Dankeschön für die Entwickler der App. 
Mit freundlichen Grüßen 
Ihr Nutzer

### 1/5 — Beste App in seiner Klasse

*2026-07-26*

Leider nach dem Update unbrauchbar. Man sieht nur die Einträge ohne Beschreibung wo und wann und bei Meldungen zum Beben kommt nur noch: Page Not found

### 5/5 — Good but maybe needs every known fault zone east of the Rocky’s

*2026-07-10*

I was looking for fault zones near the Appalachian mountains and never saw new Madrid fault lines as well as Appalachian fault lines I will still rate it 5 stars due to the great reviews of others

### 5/5 — Accurate & Timely

*2026-06-10*

I use many aeronautical, weather apps as a commercial pilot and owner of a drone company. I can say this app is state of the art accurate and provides you information hours if not a day before the media! Highly recommend this app-pay it forward!

### 4/5 — Much better since the long awaited update

*2026-06-09*

With the 2026 update, app is much improved and data updates all working.
Volcano data not updating for the last 4 weeks, earthquakes updating in real time

**Developer response:** Thanks for your feedback!

You’re right — there was an issue with volcano data updates at that time. This has since been resolved, and the latest version (2.1.0) is updating both volcano and earthquake data reliably again.

We’d appreciate it if you gave the app another try!

### 5/5 — Informative.

*2026-05-14*

I am very pleased with the precision of the informations.

**Developer response:** Thank you!

### 5/5 — Latest update

*2026-04-28*

Too bad. After this latest update and the crash was fixed, now you can't get any earthquakes higher than 3 for more than a day unless you pay. Used to be a great app but now worthless. Sorry.

**Developer response:** Sorry for the confusion - nothing changed in this regard with the latest update. In the free version, earthquakes below magnitude 3 are limited to the past 24 hours, as before. All larger quakes are always shown.
The recent update only fixed the startup crash.

### 3/5 — Best Volcanic App - When it Works

*2026-04-24*

So normally this is the best volcano and earthquake app out there. But the recent update has made it so unstable it won’t even open on both iPhone and iPad. Please fix so I can continue to use an app I love!

**Developer response:** Thanks for your feedback — and sorry about the trouble. A startup crash in the previous version caused this issue on some devices. This has been fixed in the latest update (v2.7.2). Please update and let us know if everything works again!

### 5/5 — Love the updates

*2026-04-21*

I’ve been using this app for awhile perfect reporting.

**Developer response:** Thank you very much!

## Frequently asked questions about Volcanoes & Earthquakes

### What does the Volcanoes & Earthquakes app do?

This app displays the latest earthquakes and active volcanoes on both a map and a list. It allows users to filter data by magnitude, age, distance, and volcano status, and provides alerts for seismic and volcanic events.

### What are the key features of this app?

Key features include viewing the latest earthquakes and active volcanoes on a map, receiving custom alerts for events near user-defined locations, accessing Volcanic Ash Advisories, and submitting/reading 'I-felt-an-earthquake' reports. It also offers offline access to cached data.

### Is this app free to use?

The app is free to download and use, but it does offer in-app purchases. These purchases likely provide access to additional features or enhanced functionality beyond the basic offerings.

### What kind of data sources does the app use?

The app utilizes data from multiple sources, including over 25 national and international agencies, to ensure comprehensive and up-to-date information on earthquakes and volcanoes. Original data can be found on www.volcanodiscovery.com.

### Who would find this app useful?

This app is useful for anyone interested in monitoring geological activity, such as geologists, researchers, travelers planning trips to seismically active regions, or individuals living in areas prone to earthquakes and volcanic eruptions.

## Version history (last 5 releases)

### 2.7.2 — 2026-04-27

Minor bug fix when showing / hiding tsunami message

### 2.7.1 — 2026-04-22

Internal optimizations
Bug fixes

### 2.7.0 — 2026-04-19

New News tab with native articles view
Filter by language, category, and search
Expand articles with inline reading & images
Improved image viewer with fullscreen support
New News filter panel
Background improvements & bug fixes

### 2.6.0 — 2026-04-16

Detailed plate boundaries
Explore tectonic plate boundaries with improved detail and clarity — including fault types and movement directions.

Smoother experience
Performance improvements and UI refinements make navigating the map faster and more responsive.

Bug fixes & improvements
Various fixes to ensure a more stable and reliable experience.

### 2.5.0 — 2026-04-16

Explore the Earth in more detail with newly added detailed plate boundaries on the map
Smoother experience with various UI improvements and bug fixes

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