Phones buzzed in the San Francisco Bay Area shortly after 8 a.m. Thursday with an urgent call to drop, cover and hold for a 5.9-magnitude earthquake in Nevada, just east of Lake Tahoe - an earthquake ...

An alert about a sizeable earthquake in western Nevada was erroneously issued on Thursday, Dec. 4, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The USGS alert said a magnitude 5.9 earthquake had struck ...

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 ...

Since launching Nextdoor Alerts as part of the New Nextdoor in July 2025 with The Weather Company, Samdesk, and PowerOutage.u s, the platform has delivered 3.7 million alerts – an approximately 400% ...

California lawmakers are demanding more information on an early earthquake warning system managed by the U.S. Geological Survey after it issued a false alert last week that a magnitude-5.9 earthquake ...

USGS has reported several aftershocks in the area.

A magnitude 4.9 earthquake shook Indio Monday night, rattling residents across the Coachella Valley but causing no major ...

Three huge tectonic plates meet at the Mendocino triple junction off the coast of northern California, and a new study ...