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 ...

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

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

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 ...

A new study suggests Alaska could get 10–120 seconds of warning before major quakes, with more seismic stations adding up to 15 extra seconds. Researchers emphasize challenges like harsh winters, ...

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 ...

SEATTLE — Washington residents and visitors now have access to an additional early earthquake warning tool already used in Oregon and Califonia. MyShake, a mobile app funded by the California Governor ...

Faulty transmissions of data caused the false earthquake alert sent to communities across Northern California Thursday, said a seismic expert with the early warning project. The issue was what Angie ...