Earth Alerts 2009.2.4

Earth Alerts 2009.2.4 brings you a comprehensive application which provides alert notifications and information on all natural events happening in the US.

Earth Alerts is a Windows-based application that provides alert notifications and information on all natural events currently happening anywhere in the United States (including Guam, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands).

Weather, earthquakes, and volcanos...the kind of stuff the planet dishes out to arouse human curiosity and, occasionally, fear.

Earth Alerts is a software that provides alerts notifications about natural events. To use Earth Alerts, you simply select the specific Locations you are interested in. The application will then automatically retrieve the latest weather, earthquake, and/or volcano information from various live data feeds on the Internet, and then present it to you.

Major Features:

1. Completely redesigned application interface, making the display of alerts and information more colorful and easier to read. Design change also allows for quicker navigation between screens...
2. Simple process for selecting your locations and selecting which types of alerts and information you want to track...
3. Weather information retrieval from the National Weather Service (NWS): weather alerts, color-coded maps showing all current alerts for your selected locations, high quality radar and satellite images, basic weather forecast information with weather icons, plus more... Most importantly, Earth Alerts keeps you updated on all severe weather events, including snow storms, thuderstorms, high winds, tornadoes, flash floods, hurricanes, etc...
4. Real-time alert and information retrieval from the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) keeps you informed whenever moderate or major Earthquakes or Volcanic eruptions occur.
5. Extensive configuration options, including automatic update frequency, notification methods (visual, sound, email, and mobile phone), plus more...
6. Earth Alerts can run as an icon on the Windows taskbar, notifying you only when any weather, earthquake, or volcano alerts are issued by the NWS and USGS...
7. Special feature notifies you whenever there is a new version of Earth Alerts available; you can choose to have the update automatically download and install itself, always preserving your existing settings...
8. Global activity overview: earthquakes, tsunamis, volcanoes, and tropical cyclones (typhoons, hurricanes, tropical storms, tropical depressions and other disturbances)
9. United States activity overview: severe weather including special tornado and thunderstorm watches, volcanoes, wildland fires (wildfires), and landslide related hazards
10. Activity for user-selected United States locations: local earthquakes; local wildland fires; local weather including NWS weather/hazard alerts, current conditions, forecasts and radar/satellite imagery
11. Activity for user-selected Global locations (anywhere outside the U.S.): local earthquakes, local weather including current conditions, forecasts and satellite imagery
12. Google Earth™ integration provides visualizations of recent earthquake events, volcanoes, tropical cyclones, wildland fires and severe weather warnings. Google Earth™ integration also provides high resolution views of any user-selected U.S. or Global location
13. Visual and sound notifications on your Windows desktop identifying active alerts
14. Email notifications of active alerts
15. Mobile phone text message (SMS) alert notifications of active tsunami watches / warnings, magnitude 5.0+ earthquakes, major volcanic eruptions and tornado warnings

Requirements:

1. Hardware
   • Pentium III processor or higher
   • 1024x768 screen resolution or higher
   • 128 MB RAM
   • ~20 MB hard disk space
   • A broadband Internet connection
2. Software
   • Windows 7/Vista/XP/2000
   • .NET Framework 3.5: During installation of Earth Alerts you should automatically be prompted to download/install the .NET Framework 3.5 if it doesn't currently exist on your Windows system. However, if the Earth Alerts installation process fails and/or it doesn't prompt you for the .NET Framework 3.5, you can download it directly from here. After downloading, the .NET Framework installation should only take a few minutes to complete.