The federal government and earthquake experts blamed a technical glitch for the alert that sent warnings hundreds of miles ...

Residents across the Pacific Northwest—a region where catastrophic earthquake risk looms as an inescapable reality—depend on ...

A marriage between a can of beans and a smoke alarm, 6-pound seismic sensors collect data that researchers use to establish ...

“On December 4, 2025, the ShakeAlert EEW system released an incorrect alert for a magnitude 5.9 earthquake near Reno and Carson City, Nevada,” the statement read. “The event did not occur, and has ...

BERKELEY, Calif. (KGO) -- UC Berkeley has been working for years to build an earthquake warning system on the West Coast. The same kind of system that helped prevent Mexico's 7.2 magnitude earthquake ...

OAKLAND, Calif. -- The 6.4 and 7.1 magnitude earthquakes that jolted Ridgecrest served as reminders of how unexpected and strong earthquakes can be. Seismologists are still processing the data ...

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 ...

Had there been a real 5.9 earthquake Thursday morning 15 miles east of Lake Tahoe in rural Nevada, Bay Area residents might have felt some mild shaking, particularly people living on softer soils, ...

State Sen. Alex Padilla (D-Pacoima) introduced a bill Monday to create a system in California to warn the public seconds in advance of an earthquake. The warning system, which is already implemented ...