Looks like LA's earthquake early warning app, ShakeAlertLA, is being shuttered two years after it was launched. The mayor is encouraging people to download the statewide app, @MyShakeApp instead. 
LA's app had a... shaky... deployment.
After failing to deliver alerts for the 2019 Ridgecrest quakes, the largest the region had experienced in years, the city lowered the app's threshold—but users still didn't know what to expect if and when it did work la.curbed.com/2019/7/10/2068…
After failing to deliver alerts for the 2019 Ridgecrest quakes, the largest the region had experienced in years, the city lowered the app's threshold—but users still didn't know what to expect if and when it did work la.curbed.com/2019/7/10/2068…
Some people did receive alerts from LA's app during September's El Monte quake, although it was just barely over the threshold, so you had to be in the right part of the city to get one
https://twitter.com/awalkerinLA/status/1307212450341646336
As someone who has these apps on my phone for years, I'll say the only one that's worked reliably has been @EarlyWarningLab 's QuakeAlert earlywarninglabs.com/mobile-app/
You can set custom alert thresholds *and* it has a setting where it will override your DND
You can set custom alert thresholds *and* it has a setting where it will override your DND
https://twitter.com/awalkerinLA/status/1307370470241566723
Full release from the city lamayor.org/mayor-garcetti…
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