Disaster Alert (PDC Global) for Android

11 things about Disaster Alert (PDC Global)

1. Disaster Alert is a free mobile app for public use that provides the global community with critical hazard alerts and information needed to stay safe anywhere in the world.

2. With Disaster Alert, you can customize early warning alerts, view estimated impact reports, and access visualized modeled hazard data.

3. *Onboarding: We have introduced a new first-time user app setup feature Disaster Alert to allow customization of the alert location and hazard severity.

4. *User registration email: Disaster Alert now supports additional registration email formats for plusaddressed (aka sub-addressed) email formats for new user registration forms.

5. Built on PDC’s DisasterAWARE platform, Disaster Alert offers near real-time updates about 18 different types of natural hazards as they are unfolding around the globe.

6. *Multi-language login and registration: Disaster Alert users will be able to login and register in a variety of supported languages other than English.

7. Users will be given the option to sign op, login, or skip directly to Disaster Alert as a guest without an account.

8. Hazard updates provided with Disaster Alert include only active hazards.

9. When no official source is available, alerts are updated manually by Pacific Disaster Center, presenting only a small lapse of time between the time of an event and the availability of information in the system.

10. *Default theme: The PDC theme has been applied as the default theme in Disaster Alert.

11. *When the map tip is activated by selecting a hazard on the map, users can get estimated impact information by choosing the "More Info" link and viewing Hazard Brief.