Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A phone in the San Francisco Bay Area receives a false alarm about a magnitude 5.9 earthquake that was purported to hit near ...

A false alarm claiming a major earthquake had just struck the western US sparked confusion and panic Thursday morning. According to an alert from the US Geological Survey (USGS) just after 11am ET ...

Did your phone light up Thursday morning with an earthquake alert? Good news: There was no quake. The ShakeAlert early warning system that notifies people about earthquakes as they are occurring ...

A shake alert went out over the U.S. Geological Survey's early warning system on Dec. 4, warning that a 5.9 earthquake near Carson City in western Nevada could produce heavy shaking in the region. But ...

An earthquake in Mexico City set off a seismic alert, rousting residents from their beds just after midnight Friday.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Aerial view of the devastated along the north eastern coast of Japan following a massive earthquake and tsunami March 25, 2011.

An alert sent to people across California warning about a strong earthquake striking Northern Nevada on Thursday morning was sent in error, officials said. At 8:06 a.m., the U.S. Geological Survey ...

VANDERBILT, MI – Temporary cell phone towers in Northern Michigan sent out an emergency alert this morning, warning of an earthquake. Residents of the Vanderbilt area in Otsego County received the ...

An earthquake alarm that went off on Friday in Mexico’s capital was produced by an error, the country’s Seismic Instrumentation and Recording Center said in a statement.