The errant earthquake warning that lit up phones across Northern California with a notice of a quake in Nevada on Thursday morning was not a result of a problem with the early warning delivery system or MyShake phone application, officials said.
At least four separate seismic stations detected ground motion “that told the system there was an earthquake,” which triggered the false warning of a magnitude 5.9 earthquake, according to officials with the U.S. Geological Survey…
False Earthquake Alert Likely Triggered by ‘Something Out in the Field,’ USGS Says | KQED https://share.google/qL6YarVKErRPaxHzt
