and it was not a false alarm. A swarm of small aftershocks pulsed through Northern California Friday morning in the wake of a major, 7.0-magnitude earthquake on Thursday, according to data from ...

An emergency earthquake warning sent to millions of people in Japan caused a brief panic on Friday and disrupted Tokyo's transport network. But the loud alert, which was sent to millions of mobile ...

A warning about a massive earthquake off the coast of California has been sent 92 years late. A computer error caused the US Geological Survey (USGS) to issue the ...

In Mexico City, 450 miles from the epicentre, earthquake alarms were sounded, reports the The New York Times, sending “people running into the streets, many of them in nightclothes, looking up ...

“Earthquake alarms did sound, correspondents say, but some residents apparently thought they were part of the day of drills,” the BBC adds. The quake came less than two weeks after at least 90 ...