Los Angeles residents were not pleased last week when a pair of earthquakes struck and the ShakeAlertLA app on their phones did just what it was supposed to do: nothing. The app, released to the ...
The United States Geological Survey quickly deleted the alert, saying it had been sent in error. “This isn’t a good look,” one earthquake expert said. By Erin ...
The federal government and earthquake experts blamed a technical glitch for the alert that sent warnings hundreds of miles away last week. By Amy Graff Amy Graff is a reporter on The Times’s weather ...
A puzzling false earthquake alert sent Thursday morning to millions of California residents has left U.S. Geological Survey officials searching for answers about what triggered their sophisticated ...