Quake MCS Listener
Earthquake alerts with a countdown, for any automation
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Open-source bridge that turns earthquake alerts into a webhook for anything you run: smart homes, apps, servers, sirens. It tells you how hard it will shake where you are and how many seconds you have. Official EEW, USGS, EMSC, your own sensor and Google's Android alerts (no Android device needed).
PH · launched Nov 3, 2026 · 2 upvotes (top 19%) · 0 views
Niche: personal and family safety apps · 122 launches, 12 in the last 7 days ▲ +9% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Workflow automation
- Developer
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
- Open Source
- Internet of Things
- Developer Tools
- GitHub
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Could you build this?
Partial The webhook bridge and countdown logic are easy to vibe-code, but the Android alert source is an undocumented protocol and official EEW feeds need access arrangements.
What it would actually take: The core would be a small service that subscribes to USGS and EMSC feeds and an official EEW source, computes the expected shaking at a location from magnitude and distance, and fires webhooks. The hard parts are reverse-engineering Google's MCS push channel and building a credible ground-motion model. That needs seismology knowledge and validation against real events, which AI-assisted coding does not supply.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 119 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #13 of 120 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 283 days after the earliest competitor.
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- RemoteView · ph · 2026-10-24 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.41
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