Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Few things bring people together on the West Coast like an earthquake. Whether it's rushing to Twitter to see if the jolt you felt ...

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 ...

In a bizarre incident, Japan’s Meteorological Agency (JMA) issued a warning about what could have been the world’s worst earthquake ever. The agency retracted the warning a few minutes later, but it ...

The Shinkansen stopped, and children dove under their desks. At that moment, the emergency alert had not been delivered to ...

Predicting earthquakes has long been the hope of scientists who study the motion of the planet's huge tectonic plates and the seismic faults that crisscross Earth's crust like a tangle of torn ...

Google’s “Earthquake Alerts System” on Android sent out a false alarm last night in Brazil, leading to the system being temporarily disabled. Introduced in 2020, Google’s “Earthquake Alerts System” is ...

A software error triggering a false magnitude 9.9 quake in Japan sparks fears that eroding public trust could cost lives in a real quake Kanako Hosomura was working in a clothing store in Yokohama ...

My smartphone rang. It was cancelled immediately after.What was that alarm?October 16, 2026, just after noon.An Emergency Earthquake Early Warning arrived on my smartphone. It was that sound, clearly ...