Phones buzzed in the San Francisco Bay Area shortly after 8 a.m. Thursday with an urgent call to drop, cover and hold for a 5.9-magnitude earthquake in Nevada, just east of Lake Tahoe - an earthquake ...

A notification about a magnitude-5.9 earthquake in western Nevada near the California border Thursday morning was a false alert, the USGS said. The quake alert generated by the ShakeAlert early ...

A puzzling false earthquake alert sent Thursday morning to millions of California residents has left U.S. Geological Survey officials searching for answers about what triggered their sophisticated ...

The federal government and earthquake experts blamed a technical glitch for the alert that sent warnings hundreds of miles away last week. By Amy Graff Amy Graff is a reporter on The Times’s weather ...

Did your phone light up Thursday morning with an earthquake alert? Good news: There was no quake. The ShakeAlert early warning system that notifies people about earthquakes as they are occurring ...

West Coast citizens get crucial seconds of warning with Android ShakeAlert and MyShake earthquake detection apps that issue life-saving alerts before hazardous shaking. Such new technologies turn ...

Starting next month, people living in Korea will no longer receive blaring earthquake alerts in areas where little to no shaking is felt, the Korea Meteorological Administration (KMA) said on Tuesday.

A notification about a magnitude-5.9 earthquake in western Nevada near the California border Thursday morning was a false alert, the USGS said. Stream Connecticut News for free, 24/7, wherever you are ...