[tiagod]

Last time we had a reasonably powerful one in Portugal, I grabbed my phone the house was still shaking and it already had the Android warning!

I was surprised as I didn't even know it was a thing.

I was also a bit spooked as it was in the ocean, near the coast, and when I turned on my FM radio as we were always taught in school, all I heard were pre-recorded music programs.

Turns out it didn't meet the threshold for a warning so the authorities didn't issue any message about tsunami danger. I think they should've anyway, as I wasn't the only one that had that thought.

[miduil]

yeah I've ran into bunch of people who were scared for real and drove up to higher elevation in the middle of the night.

If you'd search online you could have known quickly there was a negative Tsunami notice, but I get that this is just not feasible for everyone (or everytime).

Feel like the severe weather SMS etc are working quite decent, I wish they'd expand that for those sort of things as well (like there was an earthquake, this is what you should do next).

The Android notification was a bit odd, because it's not trivial to get back to that notification if you've just skipped/acknowledged it.