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 ...

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

A false earthquake alert mistakenly prompted Northern Californians to "drop, cover, and hold on"; officials confirm no quake ...

The United States Geological Survey put out a false alarm for a 5.9 earthquake east of Dayton, Nevada, on Thursday morning.

Had there been a real 5.9 earthquake Thursday morning 15 miles east of Lake Tahoe in rural Nevada, Bay Area residents might ...