The United States Geological Survey put out a false alarm for a 5.9 earthquake east of Dayton, Nevada, on Thursday morning.

The federal government and earthquake experts blamed a technical glitch for the alert that sent warnings hundreds of miles away last week.

The U.S. Geological Survey was still trying to unravel how an alert was sent Thursday morning for a nonexistent 5.9 earthquake outside Dayton, Nevada. A quake of that size wouldn't be implausible.

A notification about a magnitude-5.9 earthquake in western Nevada near the California border Thursday morning was a false alert, the USGS said. The quake alert generated by the ShakeAlert early ...

RENO, Nev. (AP) — A new report raising the likelihood of a destructive earthquake striking Salt Lake City in the next half century has underscored the urgency to retrofit more than 30,000 older brick ...

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. The alert, which also reached people living in ...

The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) on Thursday deleted a false alert that had incorrectly reported a magnitude 5.9 earthquake near Reno and Carson City, saying no such quake occurred and that it is ...

University of Nevada, Reno faculty can offer expertise regarding earthquakes, simulation, impacts on structures, tectonics and more. Email the University communications team to schedule an interview.

To help seismologists better understand faults in California and elsewhere, Steve Wesnousky, a geologist and professor at the University of Nevada, Reno, and two of his graduate students, Ian Pierce ...