A puzzling false earthquake alert sent Thursday morning to millions of California residents has left U.S. Geological Survey officials searching for answers about what triggered their sophisticated ...

Phones buzzed in the San Francisco Bay Area shortly after 8 a.m. Thursday with an urgent call to drop, cover and hold for a 5.9-magnitude earthquake in Nevada, just east of Lake Tahoe - an earthquake ...

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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 notification about a magnitude-5.9 earthquake in western Nevada near the California border Thursday morning was a false alert, the USGS said. The quake alert generated by the ShakeAlert early ...

LAS VEGAS (FOX5) — The federal government shutdown is disrupting earthquake monitoring efforts by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) and threatening Nevada’s push to secure funding for a potentially ...

Google's earthquake early-warning system has used phone accelerometers on Android devices to increase quake alerts by tenfold across 98 countries.

(FOX40.COM) — Governor Gavin Newsom is responding to reduce federal aid after Californians received a false earthquake alert on Dec. 4, arguing that the state and the nation are less prepared for ...

The U.S. Geological Survey is investigating how an “errant” report of a 5.9 magnitude earthquake was issued early Thursday morning.Just after 8 a.m., Bay Area residents received a MyShake alert ...