Epicenter vs QuakeMate

Epicenter — Global Earthquake Monitoring & Alerts Track global seismic activity with timely earthquake notifications, one of the most comprehensive earthquake catalogs available on a mobile device, and powerful tools for exploring earthquakes in space and time. Built on trusted public seismic reporting agencies, Epicenter helps you monitor, understand, and visualize earthquakes worldwide. MONITOR EARTHQUAKES THAT MATTER TO YOU Receive timely notifications for significant earthquakes worldwide and monitor the places and seismic regions that matter most to you. • Worldwide earthquake notifications • Location-based notifications • Watched locations important to you • Watched seismic regions • Notification history and earthquake summaries • Built on multiple trusted global and regional seismic reporting agencies EXPLORE EARTHQUAKES WORLDWIDE View one of the most detailed interactive earthquake maps available on a mobile device. • Worldwide catalog of 25,000+ recent earthquakes updated from multiple public seismic reporting agencies • Interactive 3D globe with pan and zoom • Explore earthquake distributions beneath the Earth's surface with interactive 3D Seismicity • Time Explorer with day-by-day or hour-by-hour playback • Earthquake List View with sorting, filtering, and search • Filter the List View for non-earthquake events like landslides, quarry blasts, explosions, and more • Fly directly to earthquakes and locations of interest UNDERSTAND GLOBAL SEISMICITY Understand earthquakes as part of a larger geological system. • Magnitude and depth visualization • Worldwide plate boundaries • Global fault datasets • Detailed earthquake data • Multiple terrain styles • Geological descriptions and annotations BUILT FOR APPLE DEVICES Designed to feel at home across the Apple ecosystem. • New - Home Screen Widgets • iPhone and iPad support • Light and Dark modes • Apple Watch companion • Mac compatibility via iPad support BUILT BY A SEISMOLOGIST • Designed for accuracy, transparency, and insight. PREMIUM FEATURES Epicenter+ expands Epicenter with advanced notifications, enhanced visualizations, and deeper exploration tools. Everything you enjoy in Epicenter remains free. No ads. Epicenter+ supports continued development of worldwide earthquake monitoring and analysis tools. Epicenter delivers timely notifications as earthquake solutions are published by trusted public seismic reporting agencies. Because Epicenter relies on published earthquake solutions rather than earthquake early warning infrastructure, it is not an earthquake early-warning system and should not be relied upon for emergency response or life-safety decisions. Epicenter+ Subscription Terms When you purchase an Epicenter+ subscription, payment will be charged to your Apple Account. Your subscription begins with a 30-day free trial. Unless canceled before the trial ends, your subscription will begin automatically and your Apple Account will be charged. Subscriptions are billed automatically at the beginning of each monthly or annual billing period and renew until canceled. Your account will be charged for renewal within 24 hours prior to the end of the current subscription period. Manage your subscription and turn off auto-renewal at any time in Settings → [your name] → Subscriptions on your device or through the App Store. To avoid being charged for the next billing period, auto-renewal must be turned off at least 24 hours before the current period ends. If you cancel, your subscription remains active until the end of the current billing period. When your Epicenter+ subscription ends, the app automatically returns to its standard free mode. All billing and refunds are handled by Apple. Epicenter cannot process refunds directly. Refund requests must be submitted to Apple and are granted at Apple's discretion. Privacy Policy: https://seismology.rocks/epicenter Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

QuakeMate - real-time earthquake alerts, tsunami bulletins, maps, and community reports. Get notified the moment an earthquake strikes near you, your family, or anywhere you care about. QuakeMate combines real-time seismic data from USGS, SeismicPortal, and GSI with a worldwide community of people reporting what they actually felt - so you know what happened, how strong it was, and whether the people you love are okay. Track earthquakes near you, monitor seismic activity in Japan, California, Turkey, Indonesia, Chile, Mexico, Italy, Nepal, New Zealand, Israel, Greece, the Philippines, and every other tectonic hotspot - or set up custom alerts for any region in the world. KEY FEATURES • Real-time earthquake alerts the moment a quake hits • Critical notifications that break through Silent & Focus modes • Official tsunami bulletins from NTWC, PTWC and GDACS - see whether a warning, watch or advisory is active, expired or cancelled, and the affected coastlines on a map • Updates timeline on every earthquake - what the agency changed since it happened: magnitude, depth, location, review status, tsunami status, felt reports and aftershocks • Interactive earthquake map with live epicenters and aftershocks • Worldwide seismic feed - every recorded quake, as it happens • Search earthquakes by city, country, region, or area • Filter by magnitude, time range, and data source • Full earthquake details: magnitude, depth, location, time, tsunami flag, PAGER impact assessment • Community "Did you feel it?" reports alongside USGS Did You Feel It responses - see who else felt the same shake • Live activity graphs around any earthquake • Tectonic plate boundaries, volcano locations, tsunami risk zones • Shake-intensity heat maps from community DYFI reports • Explore hub - 110 country profiles, 15 tectonic plates, the latest tsunami bulletins worldwide, and famous places like Yellowstone and the San Andreas • Swipeable earthquake facts and the science behind the shaking • Breaking hazard news for every seismic region, from trusted sources • Trusted data sources: USGS, SeismicPortal, GSI • Earthquake safety tips and emergency preparedness info REAL-TIME ALERTS Set unlimited zones around the places that matter - home, work, your parents' house, your kids' school. Pick a minimum magnitude per zone. The moment a quake matches, you get a push notification. Critical alerts deliver even when your phone is silenced. Worldwide alerts can be limited to a continent or country, and any alert can also deliver official tsunami warnings, watches or advisories. COMMUNITY REPORTS See who else felt the same shake - and tell us what you felt. Each report includes intensity, distance from the epicenter, and time. Aggregated into live heat maps so you can see how far a quake's shaking actually reached. QUAKEMATE PREMIUM • Critical alerts and unlimited custom zones • Full map layers - volcanoes, tectonic plates, tsunami risk, shake intensity, heat map • Recent activity nearby + community reports on every earthquake • Family Sharing - covers up to 6 family members • Ad-free experience • Early access to new features WHY QUAKEMATE? QuakeMate is built for anyone who wants a simple, clear, reliable way to track earthquakes worldwide. Use it to follow local quakes, monitor global seismic activity, check recent earthquakes near you, share confirmed reports with the community, or just stay prepared with up-to-date safety information. Privacy-first: Sign in with Apple is the only auth path. Hide My Email is supported. We never see your real email address. All plans include Family Sharing. Payment will be charged to your Apple ID account at confirmation. Subscriptions automatically renew unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage subscriptions in your App Store account settings. Terms of Service: https://quakemate.app/terms Privacy Policy: https://quakemate.app/privacy