Alerts & Notifications
Disasters can be chaotic. Be informed.
Get alerts to know when and where to go and what to do.
Depending on the disaster or emergency situation, you may need updates from multiple sources. Sign up for the alerts below, get a weather radio and if you have a smart phone, download the apps. Information is critical in an unexpected event.
Alert Marin
Know when to take action
Alert Marin will send critical information from local agencies during a disaster if you need to take action, such as to evacuate. Register up to five phones in your household. Alerts may include:
Nixle
Be informed with local information
Nixle is a free notification system used by our police, fire, and local government agencies to advise subscribers of road closures and emergencies.
You can also sign up for alerts from other zip codes such as those of your family members, close friends, where you work, or where your children go to school.
Alerts may include:
PG&E Public Safety Power Shutoff (PSPS)
Everyone can get notified of a PSPS event
For public safety, PG&E may turn off electricity when gusty winds and dry conditions, combined with a heightened fire risk, are forecasted. When possible, PG&E will email, phone, or text customers who will be impacted, before power is turned off.
Anyone can get PG&E alerts. PSPS outage alerts automatically go to the account holder for the affected address.
If you are not the account holder for an address, you can still be notified by signing up for Address Alerts.
Address Alerts can inform you about an expected PSPS event at any address that’s important to you. This might include your child’s school, your parent’s home, or a mobile home park or a rental unit where your landlord pays the PG&E bill.
NOAA Weather Radio
Get Earthquake and Tsunami warnings 24/7
Whether or not you have cell service or access to the Internet, a NOAA Weather Radio will alert you with a loud warning tone giving you the seconds you need to evacuate or seek shelter.
Messages are sent to these portable radios by powerful antennas mounted at high elevations to provide radio reception in almost all of Marin. Because residents everywhere in Marin would receive an alert, this system is only used for large-scale disaster warnings.
Purchase your radio online or at a local retailer.
My Shake App
Earthquake warnings on your mobile phone
My Shake is a free smartphone app that provides iPhone and Android users with audio and visual warnings of magnitude 4.5 or higher shaking.
The MyShake App sends a warning to mobile phone users that shaking is about to occur. The system uses ground-motion sensors to detect earthquakes that have already started and estimates their size, location, and impact.
When it detects a significant magnitude, the system issues a ShakeAlert® Message, providing a warning before shaking begins. The app is also available in Spanish.
When you receive an alert or feel shaking, drop, cover and hold on!
Pulse Point App
See current 911 responses in your community
Pulse Point app a 911-connected app that can immediately inform you of emergencies occurring in your community. When you download the app, enter your zip code and it will load 911 calls for Marin County.
One Text per day. It’s a great way to learn.
To receive tips to prepared for a disaster, sign up for one text message per day (we promise), sent at the time you choose, over the course of a week. By the end of seven days, you’ll learn how to complete five easy, free or low-cost steps to protect yourself and your family in the event of a natural disaster. Who doesn’t love a reminder?
Sign up by texting LISTOSCA to 72345