The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) confirmed Thursday that alerts of a 5.9 magnitude earthquake in Nevada were a false alarm.

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 ...

People around the Bay Area received a fake earthquake warning from the U.S. Geological Survey’s ShakeAlert system Monday morning. The USGS’s earthquake-warning system sent alerts for a ...

Residents across the Pacific Northwest—a region where catastrophic earthquake risk looms as an inescapable reality—depend on ...

The Shake Alert seismology team said they are now working to review the data, but that it appears the faulty alert might've ...

USGS deleted a false alert that wrongly reported a 5.9 Nevada quake, saying no earthquake occurred and the cause of the error ...

Earthquake alerts sent out Thursday morning reporting a 5.9 magnitude temblor in Nevada have been canceled, the United States Geological Survey said.

The US Geological Survey and the State Department of Natural Resources are both concerned about the risk of widespread ...

Get the latest federal technology news delivered to your inbox. The United State Geological Survey is deploying new advanced sensing technologies to better monitor and explore Earth with dual goals of ...

Ash from the catastrophic 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens began to swirl around the volcano this week, creating a smoky haze that obscured its summit. A study, published Thursday in the journal ...

A powerful 6.3 magnitude earthquake struck near the northern Afghan city of Mazar-e Sharif, killing at least 20 people, injuring hundreds and damaging the city's historic Blue Mosque, authorities said ...

U.S. Geological Survey scientist Sasha Reed studies how changing temperatures and precipitation patterns affect soil and ecosystems. The agency is warning international colleagues that data and ...