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

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

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

The ShakeAlert system that warns about imminent shaking arriving from earthquakes sent a false alarm across California on Thursday morning for a magnitude 5.9 temblor that did not happen.

“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 ...

On December 4, 2025, millions of cell phones in California and Nevada buzzed with ShakeAlert warnings of a magnitude 5.9 ...

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 ...

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 ...

California is experimenting with a new system to help warn residents. Earthquakes have proven extremely hard to predict, but a new warning system in California may still help save lives the next time ...

More than 10 million people in Canada's most earthquake-prone regions will now be able to receive earthquake alerts.