Comments on: iPhone Earthquake Application

By: Jirapong

Jirapong — Sat, 14 May 2011 07:09:46 +0000

I’m having the English version of Earthquake and Tsunami alert App on iPhone at http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/japan-alert/id431224231?mt=8

By: shibuya246

shibuya246 — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 13:51:11 +0000

I also updated some sources on early warning systems
http://shibuya246.com/2009/08/11/earthquake-news/

By: vincento

vincento — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 11:05:34 +0000

Thanks for the info, I’m downloading it now… Is good to have a bookmark of the JMA site too…

By: MiNGLED

MiNGLED — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 11:00:34 +0000

Don’t think that app would go down well in the UK, but then again it would only need to updated yearly with the tiny amount of earthquakes we have. Great Britain, home to dull weather and few natural disasters. Strange to think of all those who live in earthquake zones.

By: Joe Jones

Joe Jones — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 10:06:15 +0000

I’d rather just keep a bookmark to the JMA website, which shows a nifty map of the epicenter and affected areas from each earthquake.

http://www.jma.go.jp/en/quake/

This is much more useful because you know exactly who got hit and how much damage they are seeing (which is what shindo measures, as opposed to magnitude which only tells you how powerful the quake was at its source).

By: shibuya246

shibuya246 — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 01:12:36 +0000

no probs. enjoy!

By: Tedd

Tedd — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 20:12:28 +0000

Oh! I got it! hehe! 地震 earthquake

By: Tedd

Tedd — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 20:09:00 +0000

What’s the kanji used in the iPhone example for the search?

By: Tedd

Tedd — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 20:06:51 +0000

I used to get a lot of Japanese apps in my store too [and others], but I just looked and I don’t see to many anymore. Maybe they started to separated a lot of the apps because some people complained that they were not English apps….they don’t realize that there’s another world out here!

By: モルヒネ

モルヒネ — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 20:00:53 +0000

Go onto the Japanese store and make a new account. You don’t need a Japanese credit card to register, just a regular e-mail address. Tell me if this doesn’t work for you.

By: shibuya246

shibuya246 — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 04:40:09 +0000

I am on the 8th floor but only a very small sway of my chair as I was typing. If it hadn’t been for the iPhone app I wouldn’t have known about it. If it was the big one, though, then the iPhone app probably would go offline. Let’s hope we don’t need to experience that.

By: Jon Allen

Jon Allen — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 03:52:20 +0000

you didn’t feel it? It rocked my place with quite a loud crunching/cracking sound while I was eating my supper.
After the day I had had I thought Friday the 13th couldn’t get any worse.
Imagine if it had been the big one!