Epicentral for the iPhone, iPad (& Mac)
Explore Global Earthquake Patterns
About Epicentral
Epicentral is a network-based educational application that displays lists and maps of earthquakes that occurred during the last day, week, or month. This version runs on iPhones, iPads, and Macs (as an iPad App) but requires iOS 17+ and macOS 14+.
The data are served by the U.S. Geological Survey or the European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre (right now that's the only source of earthquake lists). List updates take at most a few 10s of seconds. For each event, a summary of the event’s properties and relationship to nearby seismicity is presented. For additional information, links are provided to connect to the event-specific USGS earthquake information page. Several historical earthquake catalogs (sourced from the US Geological Survey) are included to provide context for more recent earthquakes.
User's Guide - Version 2.4.0, March 2024 (epub version)
Epicentral_Documents_2024_2.4.0r.pdfAdditional Information
Current Version: 2.4.0
Epicentral requires iOS 17+ and macOS 14+ (Sonoma) because I used the most recent versions of the Apple frameworks to develop the app. The newest frameworks allow integration of many of Apple's latest OS features and the ability to run the app on iPhones, iPads, and Macs.
View the Epicentral privacy policy here: Privacy Policy
This site is: https://sites.google.com/view/epicentral
Bug reports to: ammon.geophysics at gmail.com
Release History
Version 2.4.0 (March 2024)
Added the ability to acquire events from the FDSN services of the European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre, which includes more uniform global coverage than the US Geological Survey.
Version 2.3.0 (March 2024)
Included statistical summary for the detailed map view and included context-providing events to place recent seismicity in a recent historical context.
Version 2.2.0 (February 2024)
Added link to the support page (tap on the epicentral logo).
Version 2.1.0 (January 2024)
Added link to the support page.
Added Number-of-events-per-day chart into the Global Statistics sheet.
Added active regions and large event lists.
Version 2.0.0 (January 2024)
Initial Release