The new year 2025 started literally with a bang. The 7.1M jolt in Xigatse on Tuesday swayed buildings in Kathmandu 400km away, and coincided with the approaching 91st anniversary of the 1934 Great ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Shinkansen can stop significantly faster and more safely when an earthquake strikes thanks to a new tremor detection and ...

A phone in the San Francisco Bay Area receives a false alarm about a magnitude 5.9 earthquake that was purported to hit near Carson City, Nev., just after 8 a.m. Thursday. No earthquake actually ...

The ShakeAlert computer system that warns about the imminent arrival of shaking from earthquakes sent out a false alarm Thursday morning for a magnitude 5.9 quake in Carson City, Nevada, that never ...