*Earth Alerts* is a 'near real time' monitoring and information service for
natural hazards. You won't find showers or sunny spells among the forecasts
made by Earth Alerts - it's strictly a tsunami, earthquake and wildfire kind
of kind of program. Once you download Earth Alerts, start your examination of
nature's less clement behavior by entering the locations that interest you,
bearing in mind that although Earth Alerts supports *global events*, it is
tailored to the US. One you have chosen your location and enabled
auto-update, you can monitor all of the major events. *Earthquakes, tsunamis,
volcanoes, cyclones, wildfires and landslides* are all covered by Earth
Alerts, with information taken from a variety of organizations that
specialize in natural hazards, weather and geography. You can focus on each
area separately, looking at maps, radar images, Google Earth results and even
news stories relating to whatever is currently happening. Earth Alerts
provides *plenty of settings* options, from tweaking the frequency of updates
to requesting email and SMS notification of any changes. You can add multiple
locations and specify the specific locales and minimum severity of the events
you want notification of. Earth Alerts is *a very interesting program* and
will be particularly attractive to people living or interested in the US. On
the negative side, Earth Alerts' maps and graphs are not interactive and the
old-fashioned interface casts a negative shadow on the program's
technological claims. *Earth Alerts is perfect for the disaster-obsessed, but
lacks the polish needed to make it a truly great program.*Download *Earth
Alerts 2011.1.158* in Softonic
