With recent earthquakes rattling cities like Delhi and tremors felt across North India, knowing a quake is coming, even a few seconds early, can be the difference between panic and action. Most ...

Google is working on making Android earthquake alerts shareable. When you get an alert, you may see an option to share the message. The message will include the hashtag #AndroidEarthquakeAlerts.

If you’re the owner of an Android phone and live in a seismically active region, there’s a chance your phone has popped up an unusual warning. Not one that asks for permission to share personal ...

Google’s “Earthquake Alerts System” on Android sent out a false alarm last night in Brazil, leading to the system being temporarily disabled. Introduced in 2020, Google’s “Earthquake Alerts System” is ...

Wear OS smartwatches can do a great many things, and one of those things is a new feature being added this week, specifically ...

Emergency alerts are meant to provide enough time for people to drop to the ground, take cover or move to safer locations. But when two massive quakes struck southern Turkey and Syria in February 2023 ...

This feature could save lives. Many of the deadliest disasters in history have been earthquakes, including the 2005 tragedy in Pakistan's North-West Frontier Province, Kashmir, and the 2010 quake in ...

Android offers OS-level “Unknown tracker alerts“, and Google is now adding two new features, including Find Nearby, for Find My Device (FMD) network tags. Under Settings > Safety & emergency, you can ...

The world has multiple time zones, which means that if you travel to a different country, you will need to adjust your clock. Our smartphones actually do a pretty good job at that. It can detect when ...

Android can now alert you when your device’s time zone has been automatically updated. This alert will come in the form of a notification, but you have to opt-in, first. The feature is live in the ...