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 ...

Faulty transmissions of data caused the false earthquake alert sent to communities across Northern California Thursday, said a seismic expert with the early warning project. The issue was what Angie ...

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 ...

After earthquakes such as a 4.7 magnitude quake in Feidong, Anhui province, in September, and a 4.8 magnitude quake in ...