Even though the app is not available for all but during its testing period, it gave an alert of the quake of San Francisco Bay Area which rattled almost 9.8 million people.
US forecasters called the ongoing winter storm a "bomb cyclone", which is crawling up northeastern America with a threat of winds as high as 60 mph and a bone-chilling blast of Arctic air.
Cities around the world, especially in Northeastern India, will experience intense heat waves that will eventually affect the ability of humans to work or even survive, says a new global study.
The list of new species findings includes Amazon's golden-crowned manakins and ornithologists have the feathers from and genomes to understand the its origin.