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 ...

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

“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 ...

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

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

The ShakeAlert early warning system that notifies people about earthquakes as they are occurring alerted Bay Area residents ...

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 ...

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

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 U.S. Geological Survey is investigating the cause of a false alert sent out reporting a 5.9 earthquake that never ...