(TNS) — Nevada will be added to the West Coast earthquake early warning system under a federal spending bill signed into law last month, according to U.S. Rep. Mark Amodei. The legislation includes ...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — As sensors picked up the first signs of a strong earthquake jolting the Northern California coast, an alert was blasted to 3 million smartphone users telling them to "drop, ...

SEATTLE, Wash. — The entire West Coast now has access to ShakeAlert, an earthquake early warning system that allows messages to be sent to mobile phones once there’s a tremor. The system debuted in ...

Earthquakes might actually be detectable using a network of smartphones now. You heard that right: There's this thing called "Android Earthquake Alerts" that's basically turning our phones into a ...

The need for an earthquake early warning system, as recently proposed in a California bill, is long overdue and highlights other needs, say two researchers within the University of California system ...

BERKELEY, Calif. (KGO) -- UC Berkeley has been working for years to build an earthquake warning system on the West Coast. The same kind of system that helped prevent Mexico's 7.2 magnitude earthquake ...

"It is appropriate that we are in this region on this day," said Gov. Newsom, as he stood with the San Francisco skyline behind him at the base of the Bay Bridge. "There's a 99.7 percent chance that, ...

University of California, Berkeley, scientists say an early-warning system gave them a 10-second alert when a 6.0-magnitude earthquake struck southwest of Napa early Sunday morning. A video posted to ...

Duke faculty and students are working with colleagues in Nepal to give the country more warning before deadly earthquakes ...