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What's new in Earth Alerts 2024.1.40

Feb 29, 2024
  • There are many bug fixes. Some features have
  • been removed entirely. A few features are still
  • broken, mostly due to external factors, such as
  • data sources being unavailable, incomplete and/or
  • out of date.

New in Earth Alerts 2024.1.32 (Feb 19, 2024)

  • The Earth Alerts project has been resurrected
  • from the dead!
  • There are many bug fixes. Some features have
  • been removed entirely. A few features are still
  • broken, mostly due to external factors, such as
  • data sources being unavailable, incomplete and/or
  • out of date.
  • Time permitting, I will continue to maintain
  • this project.

New in Earth Alerts 2023.1.76 (Oct 3, 2023)

  • There are many bug fixes. Some features have been removed entirely. A few features are still broken, mostly due to external factors, such as data sources being incomplete and/or out of date.

New in Earth Alerts 2023.1.72 (Oct 2, 2023)

  • The Earth Alerts project has been resurrected
  • from the dead!
  • There are many bug fixes. Some features have
  • been removed entirely. A few features are still
  • broken, mostly due to external factors, such as
  • data sources being incomplete and/or out of date.
  • Time permitting, I will continue to maintain
  • this project.
  • Thank you to all who have supported the Earth
  • Alerts project over the years! I first made
  • this application publicly available back
  • in 2006.
  • When I was younger, and had more time
  • available, I spent a lot of time working
  • on this project. To those out there who may
  • still be using Earth Alerts, I am sorry
  • I cannot devote as much time to it as before.
  • Life happens, priorities change.
  • *** I no longer accept donations via PayPal! ***
  • However, if you still wish to make a donation
  • you can using the Strike website or mobile app.
  • Strike lets you make donations using Bitcoin/
  • Lightning or USD.
  • "Not all who wander are lost!"

New in Earth Alerts 2020.1.122 (Mar 11, 2020)

  • For U.S. locations - bug fixes related to processing issued, effective and expired dates on active NWS alerts

New in Earth Alerts 2020.1.120 (Feb 24, 2020)

  • Bug fixes and various modifications

New in Earth Alerts 2020.1.114 (Feb 18, 2020)

  • Removed all references to GeoMAC due to their data services being transitioned over to various other wildfire organizations in early 2020: Earthquake, Tropical, Weather
  • Bug fixes and various modifications to cleanup and streamline the code

New in Earth Alerts 2020.1.112 (Feb 12, 2020)

  • Bug fixes and various modifications to cleanup and streamline the code

New in Earth Alerts 2020.1.110 (Feb 8, 2020)

  • Bug fixes and various modifications to cleanup and streamline the code

New in Earth Alerts 2020.1.106 (Feb 3, 2020)

  • Bug fixes and various modifications to cleanup and streamline the code

New in Earth Alerts 2020.1.104 (Jan 25, 2020)

  • Bug fixes related to retrieving active tropical
  • cyclone information from the Joint Typhoon Warning
  • Center

New in Earth Alerts 2020.1.102 (Jan 25, 2020)

  • Bug fixes related to retrieving active tropical cyclone information from the Joint Typhoon Warning Center

New in Earth Alerts 2019.1.260 (Dec 24, 2019)

  • Bug fixes and various modifications to cleanup and streamline the code
  • Bug fixes related to retrieving active tropical cyclone information from the Joint Typhoon Warning Center

New in Earth Alerts 2019.1.256 (Dec 11, 2019)

  • Bug fixes related to adding new U.S. locations
  • where the county FIPS code was not found

New in Earth Alerts 2019.1.254 (Dec 10, 2019)

  • Bug fixes related to retrieving active tropical cyclone information from the Joint Typhoon Warning Center

New in Earth Alerts 2019.1.252 (Nov 22, 2019)

  • For Global and U.S. locations - bug fixes for the current conditions screen and the regional radar image screen, caused by recent changes on the Weather Underground website

New in Earth Alerts 2019.1.246 (Oct 28, 2019)

  • Bug fixes and various modifications to cleanup and streamline the code

New in Earth Alerts 2019.1.244 (Oct 26, 2019)

  • Bug fixes and various modifications to cleanup and
  • streamline the code

New in Earth Alerts 2019.1.240 (Sep 2, 2019)

  • Bug fixes and various modifications to cleanup and streamline the code

New in Earth Alerts 2019.1.236 (Aug 29, 2019)

  • Minor bug fixes and modifications to cleanup and streamline the code

New in Earth Alerts 2019.1.234 (Aug 28, 2019)

  • Tropical GOES-East tropical floater satellite imagery is currently unavailable for active storms located in the North Atlantic basin; until this situation is resolved enhanced satellite imagery from CIMSS University of Wisconsin-Madison will be used

New in Earth Alerts 2019.1.220 (Aug 14, 2019)

  • Added new capability to retrieve tsunami bulletins
  • from the Joint Australian Tsunami Warning Centre
  • for the Indian Ocean and Southwest Pacific Ocean
  • regions
  • Fire:
  • For U.S. locations in California: restored the
  • capability for processing active incident reports
  • from CAL FIRE; however, static maps and Google
  • Earth KML data for active incidents are currently
  • unavailable on the new CAL FIRE website
  • News:
  • Completely revamped the NEWS link feature that
  • appears on many of the content screens: removed
  • the embedded web browser panel that was used for
  • showing a list of Google News & Science Daily
  • links; clicking the NEWS link now automatically
  • opens up your default browser and navigates to a
  • Google search results page using pre-defined
  • keywords based on the content screen you are
  • currently on:
  • General / UI
  • Fire
  • Tropical
  • Tsunami
  • Weather
  • Numerous bug fixes and modifications to cleanup
  • and streamline the code

New in Earth Alerts 2019.1.216 (Aug 9, 2019)

  • Added new capability to retrieve tsunami bulletins from the Joint Australian Tsunami Warning Centre for the Indian Ocean and Southwest Pacific Ocean regions

New in Earth Alerts 2019.1.214 (Aug 9, 2019)

  • Added new capability to retrieve tsunami bulletins
  • from the Joint Australian Tsunami Warning Centre
  • for the Indian Ocean and Southwest Pacific Ocean
  • regions
  • Fire:
  • For U.S. locations in California: finally restored
  • basic functionality for processing CAL FIRE active
  • incident reports; however, CAL FIRE incident maps
  • do not seem to be available on the website
  • News:
  • Completely revamped the NEWS link feature that
  • appears on many of the content screens: removed
  • the embedded web browser panel that was used for
  • showing a list of Google News & Science Daily
  • links; clicking the NEWS link now automatically
  • opens up your default browser and navigates to a
  • Google search results page using pre-defined
  • keywords based on the content screen you are
  • currently on
  • General / UI:
  • Fire
  • Tropical
  • Tsunami
  • Weather
  • Numerous bug fixes and modifications to cleanup
  • and streamline the code

New in Earth Alerts 2019.1.208 (Aug 7, 2019)

  • Tsunami:
  • Added new capability to retrieve tsunami bulletins from the Joint Australian Tsunami Warning Centre for the Indian Ocean and Southwest Pacific Ocean regions
  • Fire:
  • For U.S. locations in California: finally restored some basic functionality for processing CAL FIRE active incident reports; however, CAL FIRE incident maps do not seem to be available on the website
  • News:
  • Completely revamped the NEWS link feature that appears on many of the content screens: removed the embedded web browser panel that was used for showing a list of Google News & Science Daily links; clicking the NEWS link now automatically opens up your default browser and navigates to a Google search results page using pre-defined keywords based on the content screen you are currently on

New in Earth Alerts 2019.1.204 (Aug 5, 2019)

  • Added new capability to retrieve tsunami bulletins from the Joint Australian Tsunami Warning Centre for the Indian Ocean and Southwest Pacific Ocean regions

New in Earth Alerts 2019.1.200 (Aug 3, 2019)

  • Tsunami:
  • Added new capability to retrieve tsunami bulletins
  • from the Joint Australian Tsunami Warning Centre
  • for the Indian Ocean and Southwest Pacific Ocean
  • regions
  • Fire:
  • For U.S. locations in California: finally restored
  • some basic functionality for processing active
  • incidents originating from CAL FIRE; however,
  • CAL FIRE incident maps do not seem to be available
  • News:
  • Completely revamped the NEWS link feature that
  • appears on many of the content screens: removed
  • the embedded web browser panel that was used for
  • showing a list of Google News & Science Daily
  • links; clicking the NEWS link now automatically
  • opens up your default browser and navigates to a
  • Google search results page using pre-defined
  • keywords based on the content screen you are
  • currently on

New in Earth Alerts 2019.1.190 (Jul 31, 2019)

  • For U.S. locations in California: finally restored some basic functionality for processing active incidents originating from CAL FIRE; however, CAL FIRE incident maps do not seem to be available
  • NEWS:
  • Completely revamped the NEWS link feature that appears on many of the content screens: removed the embedded web browser panel that was used for showing a list of Google News & Science Daily links; clicking the NEWS link now automatically opens up your default browser and navigates to a Google search results page using pre-defined keywords based on the content screen you are currently on:
  • General / UI
  • Fire
  • Tsunami
  • Tropical
  • Weather
  • Numerous bug fixes and modifications to cleanup and streamline the code

New in Earth Alerts 2019.1.182 (Jul 30, 2019)

  • Various bug fixes

New in Earth Alerts 2019.1.180 (Jul 30, 2019)

  • For U.S. locations in California: finally restored some basic functionality for processing active incidents originating from the CAL FIRE website; CAL FIRE incident maps do not seem to be available and there are probably still some bugs in the data processing

New in Earth Alerts 2019.1.144 (Jul 15, 2019)

  • Added code to automatically migrate all application data files and folders from the old location at:Users<username>AppDataRoamingEarth Alerts to the new location at: ProgramDataEarth Alerts
  • You will no longer be able to add any Global or U.S. locations to Earth Alerts until you complete the following: You are now required to have an API Key for all Google based geocoding activities performed by the Earth Alerts application. This requires each user to obtain their own API Key from Google. See the Settings >> Application screen for more information. Sorry for the inconvenience!

New in Earth Alerts 2019.1.134 (Jul 10, 2019)

  • The following affects *existing* installations of Earth Alerts where application data exists:
  • Added code to automatically migrate all application data files and folders from the old location at:
  • Users<username>AppDataRoamingEarth Alerts to the new location at: ProgramDataEarth Alerts
  • You will no longer be able to add any Global or U.S. locations to Earth Alerts until you complete the following:
  • You are now required to have an API key for all Google based geocoding activities performed by the Earth Alerts application. This requires each
  • User to obtain their own API key from Google. See the Settings >> Application screen for more information. Sorry for the inconvenience!
  • General / UI:
  • Numerous bug fixes and minor UI changes have been
  • Made to various screens throughout the application

New in Earth Alerts 2019.1.132 (Jul 8, 2019)

  • IMPORTANT NOTICE #1:
  • The following affects *existing* installations of Earth Alerts where application data exists:
  • Added code to automatically migrate all application data files and folders from the old location at: Users<username>AppDataRoamingEarth Alerts to the new location at: ProgramDataEarth Alerts
  • IMPORTANT NOTICE #2:
  • You will no longer be able to add any Global or U.S. locations to Earth Alerts until you complete the following:
  • You are now required to have an API key for all Google based geocoding activities performed by the Earth Alerts application. This requires each user to obtain their own API key from Google. See the Settings >> Application screen for more information. Sorry for the inconvenience!
  • General / UI:
  • Numerous bug fixes and minor UI changes have been made to various screens throughout the application

New in Earth Alerts 2019.1.122 (Jul 7, 2019)

  • Numerous bug fixes and minor UI changes have been made to various screens throughout the application
  • You are now required to have an API key for all Google based geocoding activities performed by the Earth Alerts application. This requires each user to obtain their own API key from Google before you can add any U.S. or Global locations.
  • See the Settings >> Application screen for more information. Sorry for the inconvenience!

New in Earth Alerts 2019.1.110 (Jul 6, 2019)

  • Numerous bug fixes and minor UI changes have been
  • made to various screens throughout the application
  • Earthquake
  • Added the capability of displaying "intensity map"
  • and/or "shake map" imagery from the U.S. Geological
  • Survey (not available for all earthquake events)

New in Earth Alerts 2019.1.106 (Jul 5, 2019)

  • General / UI:
  • Numerous bug fixes and minor UI changes have been made to various screens throughout the application
  • Earthquake:
  • Added the capability of displaying "intensity map" and/or "shake map" imagery from the U.S. Geological Survey (not available for all earthquake events)

New in Earth Alerts 2019.1.102 (Jul 4, 2019)

  • Numerous bug fixes and minor UI changes have been made to various screens throughout the application
  • Tropical:
  • Extensive code changes to continue to reduce the
  • Dependence on Weather Underground as a data source:
  • As a result all imagery for active storms will now
  • Be fetched from the National Hurricane Center,
  • Central Pacific Hurricane Center and the Joint
  • Typhoon Warning Center; for each active storm only
  • A single link to WU will be made available within
  • Earth Alerts should you wish to view any WU
  • Specific information and imagery for that storm
  • Fire:
  • For U.S. locations in California: functionality
  • Is currently not working for displaying incident
  • Information originating from the Cal Fire website;
  • Unfortunately an RSS data feed of active incidents
  • No longer seems to be available as of July 2019;
  • I am still investigating this issue; all incident
  • Information originating from InciWeb still works
  • Okay

New in Earth Alerts 2019.1.100 (Jul 3, 2019)

  • General / UI:
  • Numerous bug fixes and minor UI changes have been made to various screens throughout the application
  • Fire:
  • For U.S. locations in California: functionality is currently not working for displaying incident information originating from the Cal Fire website; unfortunately an RSS data feed of active incidents no longer seems to be available as of July 2019; I am still investigating this issue; incident information originating from InciWeb still works okay.

New in Earth Alerts 2019.1.92 (Jul 2, 2019)

  • Numerous bug fixes and minor UI changes to various screens

New in Earth Alerts 2019.1.90 (Jul 1, 2019)

  • Extensive code changes to continue to reduce the dependence on Weather Underground as a data source: as a result all imagery for active storms will now be fetched from the National Hurricane Center, Central Pacific Hurricane Center and the Joint Typhoon Warning Center; for each active storm only a single link to WU will be made available within Earth Alerts should you wish to view any WU specific information and imagery for that storm

New in Earth Alerts 2019.1.82 (Jun 29, 2019)

  • Re-compiled for .NET Framework version 4.8
  • Tropical:
  • Several bug fixes to improve the reliability of
  • fetching active storm imagery from Weather
  • Underground

New in Earth Alerts 2019.1.80 (Jun 5, 2019)

  • Various code changes to greatly reduce dependence on Weather Underground as their website and services are unfortunately no longer a reliable source of
  • information; some tropical related imagery will continue to fetched from WU but most data will be obtained from the National Hurricane Center and the Joint Typhoon Warning Center

New in Earth Alerts 2019.1.76 (Jun 5, 2019)

  • Various code changes to greatly reduce dependence on Weather Underground as their website and services are unfortunately no longer a reliable source of information; some tropical related imagery will continue to fetched from WU but most data will be obtained from the National Hurricane Center and the Joint Typhoon Warning Center

New in Earth Alerts 2019.1.70 (Apr 3, 2019)

  • Minor bug fixes; re-compiled using Visual Studio
  • 2019 and for .NET Framework version 4.7.2

New in Earth Alerts 2019.1.60 (Mar 19, 2019)

  • Various fixes related to missing active Tropical Cyclone storm data caused by recent changes made on the Weather Underground website
  • Landslides:
  • Completely removed the Landslides feature from the "United States Overview" section of the app as active landslide data are no longer available directly from the USGS; when available any landslide related incidents provided by InciWeb will appear under the "Fire, Other" section for specific U.S. Locations

New in Earth Alerts 2019.1.54 (Mar 11, 2019)

  • Bug fixes related to Current Conditions data not appearing due to recent changes made to the Weather Underground website

New in Earth Alerts 2019.1.46 (Feb 15, 2019)

  • Earth Alerts is back from the dead!
  • Numerous bug fixes to get the application back up and running.

New in Earth Alerts 2018.1.12 (Apr 23, 2018)

  • Fixed several bugs related to adding new U.S.
  • locations

New in Earth Alerts 2018.1.10 (Mar 19, 2018)

  • Removed 'Image of the Day' feature from the application - the source website/service is no longer available

New in Earth Alerts 2017.1.42 (Oct 25, 2017)

  • Fixed several bugs related to adding some new U.S. locations

New in Earth Alerts 2017.1.40 (Oct 22, 2017)

  • Fixed the various issues related to adding new
  • Global locations

New in Earth Alerts 2017.1.32 (Sep 11, 2017)

  • Additional minor bug fixes and tweaks

New in Earth Alerts 2017.1.30 (Sep 10, 2017)

  • Weather:
  • Bug fix for missing current conditions information
  • for all U.S./Global Locations; the issue was
  • related to numerous recent changes to the Weather
  • Underground website, where I pull current
  • conditions data from
  • Tropical:
  • Bug fix for missing/outdated Tropical Weather
  • Outlook reports; also updated the code to fetch
  • the new style tropical outlook images now being
  • used by the Central Pacific Hurricane Center
  • (same style as the images used by the National
  • Hurricane Center)

New in Earth Alerts 2017.1.26 (May 7, 2017)

  • Bug fix for incorrect current conditions information being displayed for some U.S. locations; current conditions information is now retrived based on the latitude/longitude of a location

New in Earth Alerts 2017.1.24 (Feb 26, 2017)

  • Bug fix for local forecasts not updating when the National Weather Service National Digital Forecast Database (NDFD) option is selected

New in Earth Alerts 2017.1.22 (Feb 12, 2017)

  • Bug fix related to recent changes made by the National Weather Service data
  • feeds for weather related alerts (warnings, watches, advisories, etc.);
  • Updated the code for retrieving regional radar imagery due to recent changes made on the Weather Underground website

New in Earth Alerts 2017.1.20 (Jan 13, 2017)

  • Volcano:
  • Volcano reports and related features located under the U.S. Overview section are still disabled in Earth Alerts for the time being. However, the weekly volcano reports located under the Global Overview section continue to be available
  • Weather:
  • Removed the report formatting setting related to NWS reports. This is because the National Weather Service is finally switching most of their text products from ALL UPPERCASE to mixed case formats. Hallelujah! This transition is not yet complete, so expect to see some NWS alert reports in Earth Alerts appear in ALL UPPERCASE for awhile longer

New in Earth Alerts 2017.1.10 (Jan 4, 2017)

  • Miscellaneous minor bug fixes

New in Earth Alerts 2016.1.32 (Dec 30, 2016)

  • General/UI:
  • Rewrote the code used for fetching data from the NOAA Image of the Day website; Earth Alerts now uses the NOAA NNVL website's data feed instead of screen scraping

New in Earth Alerts 2016.1.28 (Oct 15, 2016)

  • General/UI: Miscellaneous minor bug fixes

New in Earth Alerts 2016.1.26 (Oct 6, 2016)

  • Bug fixes and removed the "nearby locations to epicenter" block from the earthquake reports due to recent changes made on the USGS website

New in Earth Alerts 2016.1.24 (Jul 21, 2016)

  • Earthquake :
  • Fixed a bug that was preventing new earthquake reports from being processed
  • Weather:
  • Fixed a bug that was preventing Local Forecast data from downloading from WeatherForYou

New in Earth Alerts 2016.1.22 (Jul 4, 2016)

  • Miscellaneous minor bug fixes

New in Earth Alerts 2016.1.20 (Jun 21, 2016)

  • Weather:
  • Code changes to restore the capability of processing the latest Area Forecast Discussion and Hazardous Weather Outlook reports; this fix was necessary due to recent changes made on the National Weather Service website for text products

New in Earth Alerts 2016.1.16 (Jun 21, 2016)

  • Volcano:
  • Volcano reports located under the U.S. Overview section are currently unavailable.
  • The USGS recently made changes to their website and data feeds, which has broken functionality within Earth Alerts. Sorry, no ETA on a fix for this issue. The volcano reports located under the Global Overview section are NOT affected and will continue to be updated on a weekly basis.
  • Weather:
  • U.S. Overview - bug fixes to the Severe Weather section which restores the ability to process thunderstorm / tornado reports issued by the Storm Prediction Center

New in Earth Alerts 2016.1.14 (Mar 30, 2016)

  • Volcano:
  • Volcano reports located under the U.S. Overview section are currently unavailable.
  • The USGS recently made changes to their website and data feeds, which has broken functionality within Earth Alerts. Sorry, no ETA on a fix for this issue. The volcano reports located under the Global Overview section are NOT affected and will continue to be updated on a weekly basis.
  • Weather:
  • U.S. Overview - bug fixes to the Severe Weather section which restores the ability to process thunderstorm / tornado reports issued by the Storm Prediction Center

New in Earth Alerts 2016.1.12 (Mar 29, 2016)

  • Weather:
  • Bug fixes to the Current Conditions screen which restores the capability of displaying UV index, Pollen and Air Quality data when available from Weather Underground
  • General/UI:
  • Miscellaneous minor bug fixes

New in Earth Alerts 2016.1.10 (Mar 28, 2016)

  • Weather:
  • Minor bug fixes to the Current Conditions screen which restores the capability for displaying UV index, Pollen and Air Quality data when available from Weather Underground
  • General/UI:
  • Minor bug fixes to the Image of the Day screen
  • Volcano:
  • Unfortunately the volcano reports/activity information under the U.S. Overview section are no longer available. The USGS made some recent changes to their website and data feeds which has broken major functionality within Earth Alerts. No ETA on a fix for this issue.

New in Earth Alerts 2015.2.18 (Nov 22, 2015)

  • Tropical:
  • Fixed a bug with the display of the Tropical Weather Outlook maps for the North Pacific and Eastern Pacific regions

New in Earth Alerts 2015.2.16 (Nov 20, 2015)

  • General/UI:
  • Fixed a display bug which caused the Taskbar Information Window to momentarily appear on the screen when Earth Alerts starts and when closing the main window to switch to Taskbar Mode.

New in Earth Alerts 2015.2.12 (Nov 17, 2015)

  • General/UI: Miscellaenous minor bug fixes
  • Updated Earth Alerts to use the new Microsoft .NET Framework 4.6 for Windows.

New in Earth Alerts 2015.1.74 (Nov 8, 2015)

  • General/UI: Miscellaneous minor bug fixes and and code optimization; fixed a bug that was preventing the ability to successfully add locations in Hawaii.

New in Earth Alerts 2015.1.70 (Nov 2, 2015)

  • General/UI: Miscellaneous minor bug fixes and and code optimization

New in Earth Alerts 2015.1.62 (Sep 28, 2015)

  • Bug fixes related to processing reports for storms in the Western Pacific region

New in Earth Alerts 2015.1.60 (Aug 27, 2015)

  • Bug fixes related to processing reports for storms in the Central Pacific region

New in Earth Alerts 2015.1.56 (Aug 19, 2015)

  • Weather: Minor code changes to improve the processing of icons associated with the daily Local Forecast details

New in Earth Alerts 2015.1.54 (Jul 31, 2015)

  • General/UI: Adjustments to the code to better detect if any version of Google Earth is installed

New in Earth Alerts 2015.1.52 (Jun 20, 2015)

  • Fire, Other: Bug fixes and minor formatting changes to the incident reports

New in Earth Alerts 2015.1.50 (Jun 3, 2015)

  • Weather - Global/U.S. Locations: bug fix related to occasional metric/U.S. unit conversion errors with local forecast information

New in Earth Alerts 2015.1.48 (May 23, 2015)

  • General/UI - Fixed minor formatting issues related to information displaying on the NOAA Image of the Day screen

New in Earth Alerts 2015.1.46 (May 11, 2015)

  • General/UI - Global/U.S. Locations: bug fixes related to searching/adding new locations under Settings -> Locations

New in Earth Alerts 2015.1.40 (May 7, 2015)

  • Global/U.S. Locations - removed Weather Undergroundand added WeatherForYou as a data provider for local forecast information; however, current conditions information will continue to be retrieved from Weather Underground for all Global and U.S. locations; also, U.S. Locations now have the option of choosing between National Weather Service NDFD or WeatherForYou as the source for local forecast information

New in Earth Alerts 2015.1.32 (May 1, 2015)

  • General/UI - U.S. Locations: bug fixes related to searching/adding new U.S. locations under Settings -> Locations

New in Earth Alerts 2015.1.30 (May 1, 2015)

  • Volcano - Global/U.S. Overview - bug fix for an issue that was preventing volcano photos from displaying in Earth Alerts

New in Earth Alerts 2015.1.28 (Apr 6, 2015)

  • General/UI U.S. - Locations: bug fixes related to searching/adding new U.S. locations under Settings -> Locations
  • General/UI - Fixed a bug where the NOAA Image of the Day information and image were not displaying

New in Earth Alerts 2015.1.22 (Apr 4, 2015)

  • Fixed bugs that were preventing the National Weather Service alert map images and map legend information from downloading

New in Earth Alerts 2015.1.20 (Feb 19, 2015)

  • Weather: Bug fix to display the correct Regional Radar map image for some Southeastern U.S. locations

New in Earth Alerts 2015.1.14 (Feb 3, 2015)

  • General/UI: Adjustments to the code to better detect if Google Earth/Google Earth Pro are installed

New in Earth Alerts 2015.1.12 (Jan 24, 2015)

  • Earthquake: Significant code changes related to the processing of earthquake event reports and images as a result of recent content/layout changes on the USGS Earthquake Hazards Program website

New in Earth Alerts 2014.1.202 (Dec 19, 2014)

  • Volcano:
  • Global/U.S. Overview - bug fix for an issue that was preventing most volcano activity reports from being transmitted via email

New in Earth Alerts 2014.1.200 (Dec 12, 2014)

  • Weather:
  • Global/U.S. Locations - minor tweaks to improve handling of rain, snow and other precip conditions in the Local Forecast data

New in Earth Alerts 2014.1.196 (Nov 22, 2014)

  • Weather:
  • Global/U.S. Locations - minor bug fixes and tweaks to the processing of current conditions data
  • General/UI:
  • Various minor bug fixes

New in Earth Alerts 2014.1.194 (Nov 17, 2014)

  • Global/U.S. Locations - minor bug fixes and tweaks to the processing of local forecast data

New in Earth Alerts 2014.1.192 (Nov 5, 2014)

  • Global/U.S. Overview - fixed a bug that was preventing the volcano photos from appearing

New in Earth Alerts 2014.1.190 (Nov 3, 2014)

  • Weather:
  • Global/U.S. Locations - significant code changes related to processing of local forecast data retrieved from Weather Underground due to recent changes on their website
  • General/UI - Various minor bug fixes

New in Earth Alerts 2014.1.188 (Oct 22, 2014)

  • Bug fix to show the correct count of active incident reports; minor formatting changes to the reports

New in Earth Alerts 2014.1.186 (Oct 20, 2014)

  • Bug fix that was preventing Weather Underground maps from appearing for active storms located in the Central Pacific region

New in Earth Alerts 2014.1.184 (Oct 6, 2014)

  • Bug fix/change to use a new National Weather Service web address to replace an obsolete one which was producing a "Could not find Locality FIPS code information" error when trying to add new U.S. Locations

New in Earth Alerts 2014.1.182 (Aug 13, 2014)

  • General/UI:
  • Coding changes to reference the new Google Maps API links; various minor bug fixes

New in Earth Alerts 2014.1.180 (Aug 9, 2014)

  • Tropical:
  • Bug fix that was preventing display of active storms in the East/Central/Western Pacific basins being currently monitored by the Joint Typhoon Warning Center that were previously being monitored by the National Hurricane Center/Central Pacific Hurricane Center

New in Earth Alerts 2014.1.178 (Aug 7, 2014)

  • Tropical:
  • Bug fix that was preventing display of storm category and wind speed in report
  • headers for some active storms
  • Weather:
  • Bug fixes that were preventing display of some local forecast icons

New in Earth Alerts 2014.1.176 (Aug 4, 2014)

  • Tropical:
  • Bug fix that was preventing the Weather Underground graphics from displaying for active storms currently located in the Central Pacific basin

New in Earth Alerts 2014.1.174 (Jul 23, 2014)

  • Weather:
  • U.S. Locations - minor bug fixes related to processing Local Forecast data retrieved from the National Weather Service
  • Fire, Other:
  • U.S. Locations - minor bug fixes related to processing incident reports retrieved from CAL FIRE
  • General/UI:
  • Various minor bug fixes

New in Earth Alerts 2014.1.172 (Jul 19, 2014)

  • Volcano:
  • Global/U.S. Overview - modified the search routines to improve the volcano name matching process when working with data retrieved from multiple online sources
  • Global Overview only - several minor tweaks to the code so that the formatting is correctly applied when selecting the option to list all volcano reports at once; the "list all" option is only available when there are more than 25 reports
  • General/UI:
  • Various minor bug fixes

New in Earth Alerts 2014.1.170 (Jul 16, 2014)

  • General/UI:
  • Bug fix to the mobile device messaging process which wasn't correctly including a value for "Affected Area" (i.e. for Tornado Warning alerts, etc.)
  • Minor tweaks to the email messaging processes
  • Volcano:
  • Global/U.S. Overview - updated the processing of all volcano reports to fix an issue where the the volcano attribute values (elevation, latitude, longitude, etc.) were not being correctly retrieved from the Smithsonian Global Volcanism website

New in Earth Alerts 2014.1.168 (Jul 14, 2014)

  • Bug fixes when loading Tropical Weather Outlook and Tropical Cyclone images

New in Earth Alerts 2014.1.164 (Jul 11, 2014)

  • Global/U.S. Locations - various bug fixes related to the data retrieved from Weather Underground for Current Conditions and Local Forecasts; also made some minor UI changes to the Current Conditions/Local Forecast screen

New in Earth Alerts 2014.1.162 (Jul 7, 2014)

  • Tropical:
  • Changes to support displaying the new tropical cyclone activity/tropical weather outlook maps that the National Hurricane Center displays on their website; this includes adding the ability to mouse-click the currently displayed map to toggle between three different outlook maps: Tropical Cyclone Activity map, 2-Day Graphical Tropical Weather Outlook map and 5-Day Graphical Tropical Weather Outlook map; note that this map-toggling feature only works for the North Atlantic and Eastern Pacific tropical regions
  • General/UI:
  • Bug fix that prevented the main Earth Alerts screen from displaying properly for some users when switching from taskbar mode

New in Earth Alerts 2014.1.160 (Jul 5, 2014)

  • Bug fixes related to restoring data from backup files. The option located on the Settings screen (the upper-right hand side of the screen) labeled as "Restore user settings & data from backup files" should now work much more reliably

New in Earth Alerts 2014.1.154 (Jul 2, 2014)

  • Bug fix with Local Statement reports being grouped with the wrong active storm

New in Earth Alerts 2014.1.152 (Jun 23, 2014)

  • Weather:
  • Global/U.S. Locations: bug fixes to the processing of Local Forecast data downloaded from Weather Underground

New in Earth Alerts 2014.1.150 (Jun 23, 2014)

  • General/UI:
  • Global Locations: improvements and bug fixes related to searching/adding locations under the Settings -> Locations - Global screen

New in Earth Alerts 2014.1.142 (Jun 20, 2014)

  • Fire:
  • U.S. Overview - minor formatting changes to the fire news report
  • U.S. Locations - minor bug fixes to the InciWeb fire incident reports
  • General/UI:
  • Various minor bug fixes

New in Earth Alerts 2014.1.140 (Jun 16, 2014)

  • Fixed several bugs related to searching/adding locations under the Settings -> Locations - United States screen
  • Fire - U.S. Overview: bug fixes related to processing the National Fire News report to restore some of the missing fire statistics information

New in Earth Alerts 2014.1.138 (Jun 14, 2014)

  • General/UI:
  • Changes to display more accurate location information for Weather/NWS alerts throughout the application; now uses the value indicated by "Location:" as shown in the Weather/NWS reports
  • EXAMPLE: instead of showing "Durango, CO" as an alert location for an active Red Flag Warning (which is typically issued by the NWS for an entire county) now show "La Plata County, CO" instead...

New in Earth Alerts 2014.1.136 (Jun 12, 2014)

  • Fixed several bugs related to searching/adding locations under the Settings -> Locations - United States screen

New in Earth Alerts 2014.1.134 (Jun 11, 2014)

  • Improvements to the process for sending email messages to reduce the number of duplicate messages

New in Earth Alerts 2014.1.130 (Jun 4, 2014)

  • U.S. Locations: fixed the bug where the correct NWS alert report wasn't displaying for locations that have more than one active alert
  • Various minor bug fixes

New in Earth Alerts 2014.1.128 (May 26, 2014)

  • Bug fix to restore the ability to fetch images from Weather Underground for active storms

New in Earth Alerts 2014.1.124 (May 20, 2014)

  • Global/U.S. Locations - fixed a bug where the Local Forecast information wasn't appearing for some users
  • U.S. Locations - changed the header in all NWS weather alerts reports to show a location value as either the Weather Zone name or County name depending on which data feed the information was acquired from
  • Fixed an issue where the incorrect NOAA Image of the Day information and image was displaying

New in Earth Alerts 2014.1.122 (May 19, 2014)

  • Weather:
  • Global/U.S. Locations - fixed a bug where the Local Forecast information wasn't appearing for some users
  • U.S. Locations - changed the header in all NWS weather alerts reports to show a location value as either the Weather Zone name or County name depending on which data feed the information was acquired from
  • General/UI:
  • Fixed an issue where the incorrect NOAA Image of the Day information and image was displaying

New in Earth Alerts 2014.1.116 (May 16, 2014)

  • Minor bug fixes
  • Bug fixes to Tropical Weather Outlook reports with missing dates
  • Bug fixes when processing the NWS Alerts Map and associated alert colors

New in Earth Alerts 2014.1.112 (May 14, 2014)

  • Various bug fixes

New in Earth Alerts 2014.1.102 (May 10, 2014)

  • U.S. Locations only: updated the processing of the National Weather Service color codes used for NWS alerts (warnings, watches, advisories and statements)
  • Global/U.S. Locations: some additional improvements to processing Current Conditions data retrieved from Weather Underground

New in Earth Alerts 2014.1.100 (May 4, 2014)

  • Fixed several bugs where the InciWeb and GeoMAC fire perimeter map images were either the incorrect one or not appearing at all
  • Fixed a minor display issue that occurred when the Image of the Day screen was first loading

New in Earth Alerts 2014.1.94 (May 3, 2014)

  • Volcano:
  • U.S. Overview: various improvements made to processing volcano activity data
  • retrieved from the USGS Volcano Hazards Program and Smithsonian Global
  • Volcanism Program; updated webcam links for volcanoes that have them
  • Weather:
  • Global/U.S. Locations: additional improvements made to processing Current
  • Conditions and Local Forecast data retrieved from Weather Underground
  • Fire, Other:
  • U.S. Locations - bug fix to display missing 'size/acres burned' and 'percent
  • contained' values on the CAL FIRE incident reports if that information exists
  • General/UI:
  • Various bug fixes throughout the application
  • Added new disclaimer to the top of the About and Donate screens: "Earth Alerts
  • software is intended for personal, non-commercial use only."

New in Earth Alerts 2014.1.86 (May 2, 2014)

  • Weather:
  • Global/U.S. Locations - minor improvements made to processing Current Conditions and Local Forecast data retrieved from Weather Underground
  • Fire, Other:
  • U.S. Locations - bug fix to restore the 'size/acres burned' and 'percent contained' values on the CAL FIRE incident reports if they exist

New in Earth Alerts 2014.1.80 (Apr 29, 2014)

  • General/UI U.S. Locations - a major overhaul "under the hood" with the location search and location data download processes; the changes should result in more successful matches when searching on small/rural/remote/unincorporated locations within the 50 U.S states as well as locations on U.S. island territories (American Samoa Guam, N. Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico, U.S. Virgin Islands).
  • Various bug fixes

New in Earth Alerts 2014.1.70 (Apr 24, 2014)

  • General/UI: Various bug fixes

New in Earth Alerts 2014.1.64 (Apr 23, 2014)

  • Weather:
  • U.S. Locations only: added a new option under the Settings --> Retrieve screen to allow you to choose the data source (provider) for Local Forecast information you can now choose either the National Weather Service National Digital Forecast Database (which is the default setting) OR Weather Underground. NWS NDFD provides 7 days worth of forecast information and contains the most critical details only (basic summary, temperature and wind) but is also slightly more accurate, especially with % chance of precipitation; WU provides up to 10 days worth of forecast information and tends to be more descriptive overall. Make your choice based on whether you like a shorter, more concise local forecast report or a longer, more detailed one
  • NOTE: Global Locations always use Weather Underground as a data source for local forecasts
  • General/UI:
  • Several bug fixes that corrected an issue where the screen content was failing to refresh automatically during an update; fresh content should now automatically appear on the screen as soon as it is downloaded and processed

New in Earth Alerts 2014.1.60 (Apr 22, 2014)

  • Global and U.S. locations: added a completely new set of icons for Current Conditions and Local Forecasts; these icons are based on the new fancy-shmancy high resolution icons recently issued by the National Weather Service; some improvements made to the processing of data to provide more accuracy and variety to the icons that are displayed on screen; various bug fixes

New in Earth Alerts 2014.1.54 (Apr 21, 2014)

  • Global and U.S. locations: additional bug fixes related to the Metric/American
  • conversions of Current Conditions and Local Forecast data retrieved from the
  • Weather Underground website; added some new Current Conditions values: Pollen
  • Ozone and PM2.5; some screen layout changes related to adding these new items

New in Earth Alerts 2014.1.40 (Apr 16, 2014)

  • Weather:
  • Global and U.S. locations: update to the processing tasks for Current Conditions and Local Forecast data as a result of major changes to the Weather Underground website

New in Earth Alerts 2014.1.32 (Apr 3, 2014)

  • Volcano:
  • U.S. Overview: fixed a bug that was preventing certain USGS volcano reports from being processed, including Yellowstone

New in Earth Alerts 2014.1.30 (Mar 18, 2014)

  • General/UI:
  • Fixed several new bugs related to searching/adding locations under the
  • Settings -> Locations - United States screen; this issue was caused by recent
  • layout and content changes made to the National Weather Service websites

New in Earth Alerts 2014.1.24 (Feb 10, 2014)

  • General/UI:
  • Fixed an issue when downloading Image of the Day information from NOAA; minor bug fixes and tweaks here and there
  • Fire:
  • U.S. Overview: update to support recent changes on the US Forest Service active fire maps website

New in Earth Alerts 2014.1.22 (Jan 17, 2014)

  • Global locations only: additional bug fixes related to processing local forecast data

New in Earth Alerts 2014.1.20 (Jan 16, 2014)

  • Updated internal references for InciWeb to point to the new website address; this fixes a bug which prevented the incident data feeds from downloading properly

New in Earth Alerts 2014.1.18 (Jan 13, 2014)

  • Global locations only: modifications to support recent formatting changes made by Weather Underground to their local forecast data; some related bug fixes for
  • processing the downloaded forecast data

New in Earth Alerts 2014.1.14 (Jan 11, 2014)

  • Bug fix to display the correct imagery from Weather Underground for active storms

New in Earth Alerts 2014.1.12 (Jan 3, 2014)

  • Fixed an issue when downloading Image of the Day information from NOAA; squished some other minor bugs here and there

New in Earth Alerts 2013.2.52 (Dec 12, 2013)

  • Bug fix to to restore the ability to download local forecast information from
  • Weather Underground for non-U.S. locations

New in Earth Alerts 2013.2.50 (Nov 19, 2013)

  • Weather:
  • Updated the web references to the National Weather Service's National Digital
  • Forecast Database (NDFD); this should restore the ability to perform the hourly
  • updates of local forecasts for all U.S. locations

New in Earth Alerts 2013.2.48 (Nov 15, 2013)

  • Installation:
  • Fixes to better handle updating a previously-installed version of Earth Alerts when the main installation package is used

New in Earth Alerts 2013.2.42 (Nov 14, 2013)

  • Bug fix to properly retrieve the Google Earth KML link for an active storm from the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory website's tropical cyclones page

New in Earth Alerts 2013.2.40 (Nov 12, 2013)

  • Upgraded the source code to Microsoft Visual Studio 2013; this change does not
  • have any significant impact on the Earth Alerts user interface or features
  • Volcano:
  • Bug fixes to correct the process of downloading the weekly Smithsonian Global
  • Volcanism reports; bug fix to restore the retrieval of Google Earth placemark
  • links for each volcano report (both Global overview and U.S. overview)
  • General/UI Some performance tweaks; fixed some bugs

New in Earth Alerts 2013.2.34 (Nov 9, 2013)

  • Bug fix on image handling - tropical cyclone satellite image, restore the ability to click the current image in order to zoom in

New in Earth Alerts 2013.2.32 (Sep 9, 2013)

  • Updated imagery source to use higher resolution, larger maps for the Tropical
  • Outlooks section; tweaked the UI a bit for placement of labels and links

New in Earth Alerts 2013.2.30 (Sep 6, 2013)

  • Bug fixes and formatting tweeks to reports

New in Earth Alerts 2013.2.28 (Aug 9, 2013)

  • Bug fixes and formatting tweaks to the Tropical Outlook and Tropical Discussion
  • reports

New in Earth Alerts 2013.2.26 (Jul 29, 2013)

  • Some performance tweaks; fixed some bugs

New in Earth Alerts 2013.2.24 (Jul 29, 2013)

  • Upgraded the source code to Microsoft Visual Studio 2012; this change does not
  • have any significant impact on the Earth Alerts user interface or features; also
  • needed to change the installation program to use InstallShield

New in Earth Alerts 2013.2.22 (Jul 22, 2013)

  • Upgraded the source code to Microsoft Visual Studio 2012; this change does not have any significant impact on the Earth Alerts user interface or features; also needed to change the installation program to use InstallShield
  • Some performance tweaks; fixed some bugs

New in Earth Alerts 2013.1.148 (Jul 8, 2013)

  • Fire, Other: Minor modifications to better handle duplicate incident reports and/or where the name of an incident changes (either scenario is infrequent)

New in Earth Alerts 2013.1.146 (Jul 2, 2013)

  • General/UI:
  • Fixed a bug related to searching/adding "Washington, DC" under the
  • Settings -> Locations - United States screen

New in Earth Alerts 2013.1.136 (Jun 17, 2013)

  • Fire, Other:
  • Continue to improve and optimize the retrieval of incident data from CAL FIRE, InciWeb and GeoMAC; fixed some bugs
  • General/UI: Some performance tweaks; fixed some bugs

New in Earth Alerts 2013.1.132 (Jun 14, 2013)

  • Weather: Improved support for emergency/non-weather related alerts issued by the National Weather Service, including the ability to have Earth Alerts send email notifications of these types of alerts
  • Fire, Other: Continue to improve and optimize the retrieval of incident data from both CAL FIRE and InciWeb; fixed some new bugs; please note that the InciWeb site continues to be very slow at times which occasionally affects the ability to quickly download and process some incident reports
  • General/UI: Fixed some bugs

New in Earth Alerts 2013.1.128 (Jun 13, 2013)

  • Volcano: Global overview: fixed some minor bugs and made adjustments to improve the handling of the weekly reports issued by the Smithsonian Global Volcanism Program website
  • Fire, Other: Squished some bugs
  • General/UI: Squished some bugs here too

New in Earth Alerts 2013.1.124 (Jun 12, 2013)

  • Fire, Other: Squished some bugs
  • General/UI: Squished some bugs here too

New in Earth Alerts 2013.1.122 (Jun 10, 2013)

  • Global overview: fixed some minor bugs and made adjustments to improve the handling of the weekly reports issued by the Smithsonian Global Volcanism Program website

New in Earth Alerts 2013.1.120 (Jun 7, 2013)

  • Fixed several new bugs related to searching/adding new locations under the
  • Settings -> Locations - Global and Settings -> Locations - United States screens;
  • made some adjustments to the search tips text to reflect changes made to the
  • search routines

New in Earth Alerts 2013.1.108 (Jun 3, 2013)

  • Improved the process for retrieving fire map images and Google Earth KMLs from CAL FIRE, InciWeb and GeoMAC; squished a few bugs

New in Earth Alerts 2013.1.100 (Jun 1, 2013)

  • Squished a variety of bugs; made some minor tweaks to the UI

New in Earth Alerts 2013.1.96 (May 31, 2013)

  • Volcano:
  • Global overview: squished some bugs related to handling the weekly reports issued by the Smithsonian Global Volcanism Program; issues fixed relate to recent changes made to the content and layout of the Smithsonian GVP website and data feeds
  • Tropical:
  • 2013 hurricane season is underway for the Eastern Pacific and North Atlantic!
  • Cyclone:
  • Squished some bugs and also made some minor changes to the processing of data retrieved from the National Hurricane Center to skip information reports that aren't directly associated with specific named storms
  • Fire, Other:
  • Squished some bugs; changes to support new location of the CAL FIRE incident data feeds, incident reports, and incident maps
  • General/UI:
  • Squished bug where Earth Alerts fails to detect when the Google Earth application is installed under some versions of Windows

New in Earth Alerts 2013.1.94 (May 27, 2013)

  • Fire, Other:
  • Added the capability to display incident fire maps from CAL FIRE when they exist
  • Added integration with Google Earth to allow viewing of fire perimeters using
  • KML placemark data provided by CAL FIRE and GeoMAC websites
  • Volcano:
  • Partially restored integration with Google Earth to allow viewing of volcanoes
  • using KML placemark data provided by the Smithsonian Global Volcanism Programwebsite; only works for volcanoes listed under the 'Global overview' section, still not working for volcanoes listed under the 'United States overview' section

New in Earth Alerts 2013.1.92 (May 25, 2013)

  • Updated Earth Alerts to use the newest versions of both Atom-based (used for
  • reports) and KML-based (used for Google Earth integration) real-time earthquake event data feeds issued by the USGS Earthquake Hazards Program website

New in Earth Alerts 2013.1.90 (May 24, 2013)

  • Not a bug fix, more of a gross oversight fix: now allow an underscore character
  • "_") when entering an email address on the Settings --> Notify - Email & Mobile
  • Device screen

New in Earth Alerts 2013.1.88 (May 24, 2013)

  • Global overview: restored functionality to display weekly volcano reports after recent changes made to the layout and content of the Smithsonian Global Volcanism website and associated data feeds
  • Eliminated all references from Earth Alerts of static volcano maps because the USGS Volcano Hazards Program and Smithsonian GVP no longer use these, instead using a Google Maps interface on the websites
  • Global/U.S. overview: several issues currently remain unresolved due to recent changes to the Smithsonian GVP website -- 1) Google Earth placemarks for each volcano listed in Earth Alerts do NOT work, and 2) some URL links as shown at the bottom of the volcano reports are incorrect

New in Earth Alerts 2013.1.80 (May 22, 2013)

  • Various minor bug fixes related to updating CAL FIRE and InciWeb reports and removing obsolete reports

New in Earth Alerts 2013.1.72 (May 21, 2013)

  • Various bug fixes

New in Earth Alerts 2013.1.70 (May 20, 2013)

  • Yet even more changes: improved the handling of incident reports when their
  • status changes and to better manage when an active incident has reports available from both CAL FIRE and InciWeb (the most recently-updated report prevails)

New in Earth Alerts 2013.1.64 (May 16, 2013)

  • Fire, Other:
  • Yet even more changes: improved the handling of incident reports when their status changes and to better manage when an active incident has reports available from both CAL FIRE and InciWeb (the most recently-updated report prevails)
  • General/UI:
  • Updates to improve formatting of text on the the "Image of the Day" screen

New in Earth Alerts 2013.1.62 (May 15, 2013)

  • Yet even more changes: improved the handling of incident reports when their status changes and to better manage when an active incident has reports available from both CAL FIRE and InciWeb (the most recently-updated report prevails)
  • Updates to improve formatting of text on the the "Image of the Day" screen

New in Earth Alerts 2013.1.58 (May 14, 2013)

  • Fire, Other:
  • Additional changes and bug fixes: improved the handling of incident reports when their status changes and to automatically remove obsolete incident reports...
  • General/UI:
  • Changes to automatically default to the News screen (Google News) for all alert types whenever there are currently no reports/activity to display...

New in Earth Alerts 2013.1.54 (May 12, 2013)

  • Earthquake :
  • Various changes: fixed the bug that was causing the date/time value 'at epicenter' to be missing in the recent earthquake reports; eliminated all references to World and Region maps depicting recent earthquake events -- the USGS Earthquake Hazards
  • Program website no longer has these static maps available; improved the Google News search criteria for earthquake events...
  • Fire, Other:
  • Various changes: improved retrieval of fire perimeter map images from InciWeb; improved the Google News search criteria for fire incidents
  • General/UI:
  • Minor bug fixes

New in Earth Alerts 2013.1.52 (May 11, 2013)

  • NEW! Improvements made for tracking active fires...Earth Alerts now uses CAL FIRE as the primary information source for incidents located within California; InciWeb information will continue to be used for all U.S. locations, however keep in mind that Inciweb reports are typically limited to monitored fires situated on federal land (e.g. national forests, national parks, BLM, etc.)...
  • Additional changes to improve retrieval of fire perimeter map images from GeoMAC
  • TIP: If you want to speed up the process when Earth Alerts fetches fire incident information (InciWeb in particular is a VERY slow website), adjust the setting called "Report Age" to be something in the 7-14 day range; doing this will skip downloading older incident reports that aren't frequently updated (typically Prescribed Fires); major Wildfires are updated much more frequently, often daily.

New in Earth Alerts 2013.1.46 (May 7, 2013)

  • Bug fix related to alert being set incorrectly when a new report indicates a
  • 100% contained fire; bug caused the alerts list and alert info to show as unknown location/unknown alert.

New in Earth Alerts 2013.1.42 (Apr 18, 2013)

  • Bug fixes to properly display location specific information; fixes needed due to changes to the format of the reports issued by the National Weather Service / Storm Prediction Center

New in Earth Alerts 2013.1.40 (Feb 26, 2013)

  • Yet another refinement to the recent enhancement for U.S. Locations: added a new user setting "report age"; find this new setting under Settings -> Retrieve -> Locations - United States -> Fire, Other; the default value for report age is 60 days; as with the "distance maximum" setting this new option provides some more flexibility in terms of how many incident reports for each U.S. Location are retrieved from the InciWeb service; many incidents such as large wildfires can be ongoing, long-term events which may exist for many months beyond the original date it started; the report age setting gives you the ability to determine the maximum number of days you wish to have Earth Alerts track active, ongoing incidents based on the last time the report was updated on InciWeb

New in Earth Alerts 2013.1.36 (Feb 21, 2013)

  • Minor bug fixes to recent enhancement for U.S. Locations: fixed the incorrect
  • date/time stamps indicating when the InciWeb report was last updated; other
  • minor formatting changes to the report as it appears in Earth Alerts
  • All earthquake screens: small improvement to the "News" option, specifically with Google News...now provides a more specific default search string based on the currently-selected earthquake event; example: searches on the specific phrase "MINDANAO PHILLIPINES EARTHQUAKE" instead of generic search "EARTHQUAKE"

New in Earth Alerts 2013.1.32 (Feb 19, 2013)

  • Changes for U.S. Locations only: significant enhancement with how information is retrieved and processed from the InciWeb system; changes better differentiate between types of fires (wildfires, wildland fires, prescribed fires) and other types of incidents occasionally reported on Inciweb such as floods. This enhancement also includes a new user setting: "distance maximum"; find this new setting under Settings -> Retrieve -> Locations - United States -> Fire, Other; the default value for distance maximum is 150 miles; this value is applied for each U.S. Location you have setup; the benefit of this enhancement is that the data retrieval process should be faster overall (the InciWeb site has always been notoriously SLOW!); the incident reports shown for each U.S Location are now more relevant since they are now based on latitude/longitude values -- this works similar to how earthquake events are tracked in Earth Alerts; the distance value is calculated between each U.S. Location and an active incident reported on InciWeb such as a wildfire
  • Changes for U.S. Overview and U.S. Locations: eliminated all UI references to
  • "Wildland Fire" and replaced with simply "Fire"

New in Earth Alerts 2013.1.22 (Feb 11, 2013)

  • Added new precipitation data to the Current Conditions screen; will show either Snow Depth or Rainfall if available for a location

New in Earth Alerts 2013.1.16 (Feb 6, 2013)

  • Bug fix to show correct region/location for active Tsunami warning/watch/advisory

New in Earth Alerts 2013.1.14 (Jan 19, 2013)

  • Updates to improve formatting of text on the the "Image of the Day" screen
  • Miscellaneous minor bug fixes

New in Earth Alerts 2013.1.12 (Jan 7, 2013)

  • Changes to support new data feed format from the West Coast & Alaska Tsunami Warning Center; several minor bug fixes when processing data for tsunami reports
  • Updates to improve formatting of text on the the "Image of the Day" screen

New in Earth Alerts 2012.1.180 (Dec 28, 2012)

  • Miscellaneous minor bug fixes

New in Earth Alerts 2012.1.176 (Dec 27, 2012)

  • Enhancements to downloading, processing and formatting SPC watches (tornado and thunderstorm), storm reports (tornado, wind, hail) and severe weather outlooks

New in Earth Alerts 2012.1.172 (Dec 20, 2012)

  • Additional minor formatting changes to storm reports (tornado, wind, hail)

New in Earth Alerts 2012.1.170 (Dec 20, 2012)

  • Miscellaneous cosmetic changes to Storm Prediction Center (SPC) tornado/severe thunderstorm watch reports and storm reports; updated Google Earth links
  • Miscellaneous minor bug fixes

New in Earth Alerts 2012.1.166 (Dec 17, 2012)

  • Bug fix to "maximum sustained winds" conversion from Knots to MPH, used for setting the tropical cyclone strength (category) for all storms tracked by the Joint Typhoon Warning Center

New in Earth Alerts 2012.1.164 (Dec 17, 2012)

  • Weather Bug fix to display the correct Regional Radar map image for Upper Midwest U.S. locations
  • General/UI Coding changes for the "Image of the Day" screen to support the new NOAA Environmental Visualization Laboratory website layout

New in Earth Alerts 2012.1.160 (Dec 15, 2012)

  • Bug fix to display correct count of active Tropical Cyclones as shown under the "Global overview" list

New in Earth Alerts 2012.1.156 (Dec 11, 2012)

  • Bug fix to alert sounds feature (see Settings -> Notify - Visual & Sound) where certain sounds would not play unless at least one U.S. Location was setup in Earth Alerts; also changed the sound settings to play an alert sound for active tornado warning and weather warnings that exist for ANY U.S. location not just the primary (first) U.S. location

New in Earth Alerts 2012.1.154 (Dec 10, 2012)

  • Minor changes to improve how earthquake map images are processed for Email and Mobile Device messages sent by Earth Alerts

New in Earth Alerts 2012.1.152 (Dec 10, 2012)

  • Changes to display a label on the Current Conditions screen to differentiate between a weather station that is active, temporarily not active (currently not reporting), or estimated values because no nearby weather station exists (ex. at a remote location such as Pitcairn Island)

New in Earth Alerts 2012.1.150 (Dec 7, 2012)

  • General/UI:
  • Bug fix to the "Active Alerts Notification Window" when an Earth Alerts program update is available and the notification is being added to the window but never appears; also fixes a screen display issue that occurs if the user manually stops the "Auto Update" operation currently underway...
  • Earthquake:
  • Yet another bug fix related to retrieval of the Location Map image for each earthquake event (the URL values being stored in the user data file were not correct); additional tweaks designed to improve retrieval of a Shake Map image for significant earthquake events (if available on the USGS Earthquake Hazards Program website)

New in Earth Alerts 2012.1.144 (Dec 5, 2012)

  • Additional tweaks designed to improve retrieval of the location map image for each earthquake event (if available on the USGS Earthquake Hazards Program website)

New in Earth Alerts 2012.1.142 (Dec 4, 2012)

  • General/UI:
  • Bug fixes to make sure that Earth Alerts recovers properly after Windows returns from sleep/low power mode and/or when Internet connectivity is temporarily lost; bug seems to occur only when "Auto Update Mode" is active (turned ON)
  • Earthquake:
  • Small changes designed to improve the handling of report contents (titles and region names specifically); small tweaks designed to improve retrieval of the location map image for each earthquake event

New in Earth Alerts 2012.1.140 (Dec 3, 2012)

  • General/UI:
  • Changes made to the "Active Alerts Notification Window" to display individual
  • active alerts only once per 24 hour period; this allows significant alerts to be displayed in the pop-up window more efficiently, eliminating the (mildly/ extremely annoying, depending on how you feel) repeated display of the
  • same active alert items after each update interval; as always, in the Settings -> Notify - Visual & Sound screen you can control how many active alerts to display in the window at a time and how long the pop-up window displays above the Windows taskbar; if you wish, you can also turn OFF this "Active Alerts Notification Window" feature entirely if it really pisses you off!
  • Wildland Fire:
  • Bug fix to properly display InciWeb and GeoMAC fire perimeter map images embedded
  • in emails sent by Earth Alerts

New in Earth Alerts 2012.1.130 (Nov 26, 2012)

  • Adding new Global/U.S. Locations: bug fixes and improved the accuracy when
  • performing search operations and downloading location-related data