An urgent alert of a 5.9-magnitude earthquake in the Reno, Nevada, area sparked panic among Californians — but it turned out ...

The Shake Alert seismology team said they are now working to review the data, but that it appears the faulty alert might've ...

The United States Geological Survey quickly deleted the alert, saying it had been sent in error. “This isn’t a good look,” ...

"This was an errant earthquake warning sent out by the USGS’s ShakeAlert system," Kyren Bogolub, seismologist at the ...

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 Carson City in western Nevada could produce heavy shaking in the region. But ...

Many residents in Northern California got a MyShake alert Thursday morning about a 5.9 earthquake in western Nevada, but it ...

A notification about a magnitude-5.9 earthquake in western Nevada near the California border was a false alert, the USGS said ...

An incorrect alert was sent out for a Nevada earthquake with a purported magnitude of 5.9 on Thursday, the U.S. Geological ...

An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 5.9 hit in Nevada on Thursday morning, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.

USGS mistakenly issued a 5.9 quake alert near Dayton Nevada. No quake occurred. Here is what Californians should know about ...

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

Thursday's non-quake highlighted the need for better earthquake-warning tools. Three western states have a system in place, ...