Earthquake Alert Permissions and Legal

Permissions

Your location
Earthquake Alert asks for your location so it can filter earthquakes near you, show the approximate distance to each earthquake, and show you certain stats like the closest earthquake to you and the most notable earthquakes in your area in the last 30 days. Denying this permission simply drops these features. As an alternative, you can set a manual location in the app settings.

Network communication
Earthquake Alert downloads its data from USGS.gov and therefore needs internet access.

Your external storage
Google play lists this as "media and pictures", but is just your phone's storage. The map in this app downloads and stores some of the map imagery on the phone itself. The rest of the app does not use any of your storage and does not fetch any media or pictures. If this permission is denied, the map imagery will just have to re-download more often.

Earthquake Alerter Permissions
Check this page for explanation of the push notification service and its permissions: Earthquake Alerter permissions

Disclaimer

⚠ This app is only INFORMATIONAL. NO early warning information provided.

Earthquake Alert! is not affiliated with the USGS. Most of its data however is from them and therefore users should consult their website for any questions about the timing of the alerts or the data itself if this app's help does not cover it.

Adapted and paraphrased from USGS:
Earthquake data and notifications are preliminary. Subsequent review usually results in some revision to the data, and all users are advised to check the USGS earthquake program pages at http://earthquake.usgs.gov for updates. Data users are cautioned to consider carefully the provisional nature of the information before using it for decisions that concern personal or public safety or the conduct of business that involves substantial monetary or operational consequences. Earthquakes are a common occurrence, and many are either not large enough to cause damage or not located sufficiently close to populations centers to produce damage.

Informational tool only
Earthquake Alert! and its notifications are an informational tool and NOT a robust earthquake or tsunami warning system. The USGS does not produce tsunami warnings. For the information about tsunamis, please refer to the information given in the NOAA website http://tsunami.gov/. You will receive alerts sometimes well after the actual event (see Timing section).

Timing of earthquakes and alerts
On a global basis, earthquakes of magnitude 5.0 or greater are generally reviewed and distributed within 2 hours of their occurrence. Some events of magnitude 5.0 to 6.0 in remote parts of the world, especially on mid-ocean ridges in parts of the Southern Hemisphere, may not be distributed until 24 hours after their occurrence. Within the US, widely felt earthquakes are generally distributed within 5 minutes. Additionally, processing and sending the messages typically takes 5-10 additional minutes.

List of Worldwide earthquakes
The events which have been located by the USGS and contributing agencies should not be considered to be a complete list of ALL events M2.5+ in the US and adjacent areas and especially should not be considered to be complete lists of ALL events M4.0+ in the World. The World Data Center for Seismology, Denver (a part of the USGS National Earthquake Information Center) continues to receive data from observatories throughout the world for several months after the events occurred, and using those data, adds new events and revises existing events in later publications. For a description of these later publications and the data available, see Scientific Data.