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.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Californians who saw reports of a 5.9 earthquake near Dayton, Nevada, on Thursday morning can breathe easy — it was a false alarm.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A phone in the San Francisco Bay Area receives a false alarm about a magnitude 5.9 earthquake that was purported to hit near ...

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A rare false alert from the U.S. Geological Survey’s ShakeAlert system jolted phones across California on Thursday morning, warning of a major earthquake that never happened. The alert, issued just ...

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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 ...