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 ...

“ShakeAlert confirms that the earthquake alerts that were delivered at 8:06am are cancelled,” the USGS ShakeAlert account on ...

Robert DeGroot, operations team lead for the USGS-managed ShakeAlert Earthquake Early Warning System, told SFGATE that at ...

The false alert Thursday mistakenly claimed a magnitude 5.9 earthquake had struck near Carson City, Nevada. Here’s what ...

In an unusual incident that left many residents on edge, an earthquake alert was mistakenly sent out on Thursday, warning of a significant seismic event in northern Nevada. The United States ...

The USGS mistakenly issued a 5.9 earthquake alert for the Nevada area on Thursday morning, triggering confusion as residents ...

CARSON CITY, Nevada– A magnitude 5.9 earthquake reported Thursday morning in Nevada didn't actually happen, after a Shake ...

Yaareb Altaweel, a geophysicist with the survey’s National Earthquake Information Center in Golden, Colorado, said the USGS ...

The earthquake report was later deleted from the MyShake app — which carries earthquake early warnings from the U.S.

The story was sourced to an earthquake alert issued by the United States Geological Survey (USGS), which later said its system issued an alert for an event that did not occur. The USGS said the ...

Residents across Nevada and California woke up Thursday to a startling alert warning of a 5.9 magnitude earthquake.