What Californians get wrong about earthquakes

Some of California’s biggest earthquakes have occurred on lesser-known fault areas, including both the Ridgecrest quake and ...
Hit Points on MSN

USGS flags 'explosion' event near Seattle as earthquake warning triggers statewide panic

On December 4, 2025, the U.S. Geological Survey confirmed a false ShakeAlert earthquake warning reached parts of California ...
WMUR

Earthquake rattles Milford area

AND WE ARE FOLLOWING SOME BREAKING NEWS THIS MORNING. AN EARTHQUAKE SHOOK THE MILFORD AREA OVERNIGHT. ACCORDING TO THE U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY, THE QUAKE WAS CENTERED ABOUT A MILE NORTH WEST NORTHWEST ...
SFGate

Magnitude 4.9 earthquake strikes Northern California, USGS says

This article originally appeared on KCRA.com. SUSANVILLE, Calif. — A magnitude 4.9 earthquake was recorded near the town of Susanville in Lassen County on Tuesday, according to the U.S. Geological ...
NBC Bay Area

Bay Area earthquake swarm centered near San Ramon

Multiple small earthquakes struck Monday morning, centered near San Ramon, according to the United States Geological Survey. There have been dozens of small earthquakes reported in the San Ramon area ...
kcra.com

'Did not occur': False alert sent out for 5.9-magnitude quake in Nevada, USGS says

FROM 65 TO THE SPLIT. BACK TO YOU. ALL RIGHT, BRIAN, THANKS SO MUCH. WE DO HAVE AN UPDATE NOW. THE USGS JUST PUT OUT AN OFFICIAL CORRECTION ON THEIR WEBSITE REGARDING THAT 5.9 EARTHQUAKE THAT THEY HAD ...
Rolling Out

What triggered false 5.9 earthquake alert baffles experts

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 ...
Newsweek

USGS Shares Then Deletes Massive Nevada Earthquake Alert Near Dayton

The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) on Thursday deleted a false alert that had incorrectly reported a magnitude 5.9 earthquake near Reno and Carson City, saying no such quake occurred and that it is ...
Reuters

USGS says Nevada quake report was false, blaming automatic system's error

Dec 4 (Reuters) - The United States Geological Survey said on Thursday its automatic earthquake detection system had erroneously sent out a report earlier in the day that a 5.9 magnitude temblor had ...
Santa Rosa Press Democrat

Did you get that 5.9 quake alert? USGS says it shouldn’t have gone out

Lea el artículo en español aquí. Less than an hour after North Bay residents were warned early Thursday about a magnitude 5.9 earthquake in western Nevada, the alert vanished from U.S. Geological ...
NBC 10 Philadelphia

Magnitude-5.9 Nevada earthquake notification was false alert, USGS says

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 ...