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 ...

Japan has been hit by a series of earthquakes, prompting evacuation orders and tsunami warnings. These videos from Kanazawa, Ishikawa prefecture, show the scenes as the city was shaken. Watch: How ...

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 ...

5, 2024. (Juliana Yamada/KQED) After the initial shock — and tsunami warning — had passed, San Francisco officials urged residents to use the morning’s events as an opportunity to prepare for ...

Shinkansen can stop significantly faster and more safely when an earthquake strikes thanks to a new tremor detection and alarm system, according to railway operators and engineers. The time it ...