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 ...

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

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.

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

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

KRNV NBC Reno covers news, sports, weather and traffic for the Reno, Nevada area including Sparks, Carson City, Virginia City ...

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 ...

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