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 ...

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

Berkeley researchers say faulty data from Nevada seismic stations appeared to trigger Thursday’s ShakeAlert, even though no earthquake happened.

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

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

People throughout Northern California received a MyShake alert on Thursday at 8:06 a.m., notifying them of an earthquake in ...

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 ...

(NYT) — An alert that Nevada had been rocked by a 5.9 magnitude earthquake early Thursday sent phones buzzing briefly before the U.S. Geological Survey quickly deleted the warning from its website and ...

Republican Matt Van Epps of Tennessee was sworn Thursday as the newest House member, two days after winning a closely watched special election that helped maintain his party's slim grip on power. "I ...

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