Google is extending and enhancing the SOS functionality built into Search and Maps to better assist Canadians when the next major natural disaster occurs, the company announced on Thursday morning.

Google has for years been harnessing the power of its Android smartphones to detect and measure tens of thousands of ...

An 8.8-magnitude earthquake struck off Russia’s eastern coast on late Wednesday morning, local time. The quake triggered ...

Google wants to help Canadians in times of crisis. That’s why more visual crisis information will be available on Google Maps after Thursday, June 6th. This includes earthquake shakemaps, to be ...

Tech giant says nearly 10 million people did not receive highest-level warning from its Android Earthquake Alerts system ...

An 8.8 magnitude earthquake - one of the strongest ever recorded - struck in the Pacific Ocean off Russia's far east coast.

Despite being designed to warn users seconds before earth shaking, Google's quake alert system failed during a major disaster ...

Back in 2020, Google kicked off a project to crowdsource signals from Android phones that an earthquake might be imminent. The system leveraged the accelerometers inside these devices to gather ...

Alerts for a potential tsunami were issued for coastlines in North America, Hawaii, Russia and Japan after a powerful ...

The color-coded map shows a range of earthquake probability across the U.S. Well known high-risk areas, such as California and Alaska, are coded in dark red, denoting the highest risk.