A false alarm claiming a major earthquake had just struck the western US sparked confusion and panic Thursday morning. According to an alert from the US Geological Survey (USGS) just after 11am ET ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 5.9 hit in Nevada Thursday morning, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The ...

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 ...

The U.S. Geological Survey was still trying to unravel how an alert was sent Thursday morning for a nonexistent 5.9 earthquake outside Dayton, Nevada. A quake of that size wouldn't be implausible.

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 ...

The USGS initially reported a 5.9 quake near Dayton, Nevada about 8 a.m. Moments afterward, the USGS deleted the event. The USGS said the first alert was a mistake and they were looking into it.