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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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.

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

The ShakeAlert early warning system that notifies people about earthquakes as they are occurring alerted more than 600,000 people across Northern California of a magnitude 5.9 earthquake Thursday ...