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 ...

Did your phone light up Thursday morning with an earthquake alert? Good news: There was no quake. The ShakeAlert early warning system that notifies people about earthquakes as they are occurring ...

RENO, Nev. — At about 8:06 a.m. Thursday, residents in Northern Nevada and even as far out as Los Angeles received an alarming phone alert reporting a 5.9M earthquake near Dayton, Nevada. But oddly ...

An urgent alert of a 5.9-magnitude earthquake in the Reno, Nevada, area sparked panic among Californians — but it turned out the temblor never happened. An aerial view of Reno, Nevada. AFP via Getty ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. California Gov. Gavin Newsom seen in November. A false earthquake alert that went out Dec. 5 prompted Newsom to sharply criticize ...

Nextdoor Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: NXDR), the essential neighborhood network, today announced expanded integrations for Nextdoor Alerts, implementing real-time earthquake data from the U.S. Geological ...