West Coast citizens get crucial seconds of warning with Android ShakeAlert and MyShake earthquake detection apps that issue life-saving alerts before hazardous shaking. Such new technologies turn ...

The reason people as far away as Oakland, Berkeley, and Concord received the alerts is that the system's minimum delivery threshold is set at a "weak" Modified Mercalli Intensity value.

The United States Geological Survey (USGS) announced a new update to its earthquake alert app that aims to give advance notice seconds before some of the strongest earthquakes hit. The ShakeAlert ...

Though we haven’t yet figured out how to actually predict earthquakes, a system based in California aims at giving people in earthquake-prone regions a few extra seconds to take cover. ShakeAlert is ...

Even a few seconds’ notice gives people time to prepare before the shaking. By Amy Graff Amy Graff is a reporter on The Times’s weather team. Millions of people across Southern California learned ...

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 ...