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

West Coast citizens get crucial seconds of warning with Android ShakeAlert and MyShake earthquake detection apps that issue life-saving alerts before hazardous shaking. Such new technologies turn ...

BERKELEY HILLS, Calif. (KGO) -- Two moderate earthquakes rocked the Bay Area in the last 24 hours. The first one hit around 10:30 p.m. Monday near the Pleasant Hill-Walnut Creek border. There have ...

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

California’s governor said a false earthquake alert sent by the U.S. Geological Survey’s early warning system last week ...

A notification about a magnitude-5.9 earthquake in western Nevada Thursday morning was a false alert, the USGS said. The quake alert generated by the ShakeAlert early warning system indicated an ...

An earthquake of magnitude 5.9 shook Nevada on Thursday morning, according to the United States Geological Survey. Phones buzzed as far away as San Francisco, though no shaking was evident in much of ...

"It is appropriate that we are in this region on this day," said Gov. Newsom, as he stood with the San Francisco skyline behind him at the base of the Bay Bridge. "There's a 99.7 percent chance that, ...

This sensor, one of 52 — half of them in Homer, half in Kodiak — that Quigley and other Alaska Earthquake Center scientists ...

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