Seismo 1.9

Seismo is a program designed for Mac users who wish to keep track of recent global earthquake data. This application provides you with detailed information regarding the latest seismic activity, constantly updates its records, and gives you direct access to the homepage of USGS (United States Geological Survey).

The utility brings a straightforward interface and displays a list containing latest earthquake data. You can sort the seismic activity entries according to your needs (by name, magnitude, etc.), search earthquake info by location, and set a refresh rate for the fetched data (at every X minutes).

An important advantage is that Seismo warns you whenever an earthquake has a magnitude higher than a defined value (you can set the value from the Preferences menu). The app also informs you if a seismic activity took part at a depth lower than the value you set within the Preferences menu.

Furthermore, the program also features a world map that displays the location of recent seismic activity.

As a conclusion, Seismo is an app that provides you with a solution for monitoring recent seismic activity around the world. The program is very simple to use, offers accurate earthquake information, and comes without a price tag.

v1.9 [Dec 21, 2019]
This version of Seismo brings a couple of bug fixes and improvements, some of which only surfaced with the new MacOS Catalina:
• BUGFIX: fix an issue where some alert panels were rendered incorrectly
• BUGFIX: fix a layout issue in Preferences window, which became apparent on MacOS Catalina
• BUGFIX: fix an issue where Tsunami Alerts were always showing for every earthquake, regardless of whether the earthquake did pose a Tsunami threat or not
• STABILITY IMPROVEMENTS: several bug fixes to improve stability
• IMPROVEMENT: Seismo now tries to update its own Location when reloading the Earthquake information. Previously only the initially obtained location was used for calculating the distance to each earthquake.
• IMPROVEMENT: when the user selects the minimum magnitude of earthquakes to show, Seismo now requests a filtered (narrower) list of earthquakes from USGS instead of downloading all earthquakes in a given period and filtering them locally; this should improve the speed of downloads as well as limit the data use and reduce the load on USGS servers
• FUNCTIONAL CHANGE: remove the Web Sheet displaying the USGS web page about a given earthquake. Now, the Earthquake Detailed Information panel has a button to open the Earthquake Web Page in the default Browser instead.
• GENERAL CODE MAINTENANCE: modernise the code base to remove the use of deprecated API calls