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Android’s Earthquake Alerts System can detect and warn customers about earthquakes by aggregating sensor information from hundreds of thousands of telephones. Final yr, Google introduced this function to Put on OS smartwatches, offering customers with warnings about seismic exercise immediately on their wrists. Now, Google seems to be taking the function a step additional on Put on OS, permitting it to work independently and not using a paired smartphone.

Within the launch notes for its newest Play Providers replace (v26.07 from February 23, 2026), Google states:

[Wear] With this function, now you can get earthquake alerts in your Put on gadgets even it’s unpaired from the telephone.

The road suggests that after this replace rolls out to Put on OS smartwatches just like the Pixel and Galaxy Watches, the wearables will be capable of alert customers about earthquakes even when they aren’t paired to a smartphone.

At current, earthquake alerts on Put on OS merely mirror the data proven on linked smartphones. We are able to’t verify whether or not Put on OS smartwatches with mobile connectivity have ever supported unbiased earthquake alerts, however the truth that Google is just now calling this out as a brand new function in its changelog suggests they could not have.

Android smartphones embody tiny accelerometers able to detecting vibrations that might point out an earthquake. When a telephone senses what it believes to be seismic exercise, it sends a sign to Google’s earthquake detection servers together with a basic location of the shaking. Google then aggregates information from many gadgets to find out whether or not an earthquake is definitely occurring.

It stays to be seen whether or not Google will take an identical strategy with Put on OS smartwatches, which additionally embody accelerometers. Might information from watches ultimately feed into the Android Earthquake Alerts System in the identical method telephone information does?

Regardless, the function would probably nonetheless require an lively web connection. For now, we’ll have to attend for an official announcement or extra clarification from Google to know precisely how unbiased earthquake alerts will work on Put on OS.