When it comes to safely navigating natural disasters, knowledge is power. Wherever you live geographically, it is important to know what threats you are up against and what it means to be prepared. If ...

On October 12, 2025, in Sichuan, China, a security video shows an earthquake alarm going off in a living room area. In the video, a child and a woman are lying on a sofa when the alarm starts counting ...

The ShakeAlert system that warns about imminent shaking arriving from earthquakes sent a false alarm across California on Thursday morning for a magnitude 5.9 temblor that did not happen.

A magnitude 7.6 earthquake shook Mexico's central Pacific coast on Monday, killing at least one person and setting off a seismic alarm in the rattled capital on the anniversary of two earlier ...

Did your phone light up this 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 alerted ...

Residents across Nevada and California were startled Thursday when their phones erupted with an earthquake alert warning of a powerful 5.9 magnitude. The US Geological Survey (USGS) issued the warning ...

For more than a month, the Bay Area has been subjected to a seemingly ceaseless stampede of earthquakes, rattling windows and raising fears across California.

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 ...