In a bizarre incident, Japan’s Meteorological Agency (JMA) issued a warning about what could have been the world’s worst earthquake ever. The agency retracted the warning a few minutes later, but it ...

Japan's Meteorological Agency has issued a public apology after mistakenly issuing a warning for a magnitude 9.9 earthquake, triggering emergency alerts on millions of mobile phones. The announcement ...

TOKYO (HawaiiNewsNow) - At 12:40 p.m. Friday Japan time, people in Japan received an emergency alert from the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) warning they would be hit by a powerful earthquake. But ...

The people of Japan received a jarring emergency alert at 12:40 p.m. local time Friday (overnight Thursday-Friday in the U.S.) warning of a 9.9-magnitude earthquake, a measurement never recorded in ...

TOKYO — Screens lit up and phone alarms sounded in Japan on Friday with a startling if not unfamiliar warning: Heavy shaking soon. Seek shelter. But less than 10 minutes later, the same alarm sounded ...

Officials on Friday withdrew an alert sent when they believed a 9.9-magnitude earthquake had taken place. In the end, the tremor was hardly felt. By Kiuko Notoya and Claire Moses Kiuko Notoya reported ...

Japan's earthquake early-warning system briefly issued an alert estimating a magnitude 9.9 earthquake after a magnitude 6.9 quake struck off Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula on October 16, 2026. The Japan ...

SAN DIEGO (KUSI/ FOX 5) — Matt O’Fallon was impressed. “It’s fun to hang on like that,” he told me after riding the earthquake simulator in Balboa Park, “but it impressed on me the need to be prepared ...

Google is delivering an update to Android’s earthquake alerts system that will show more information while also expanding support to over 200 regions across the globe. Launched in 2021, Android’s ...

Android’s Earthquake Alerts System is expanding to more regions: 200+, up from 98. Be Ready earthquake alert notifications will be getting an update “in the coming months.” Google says Android has ...

The California Governor’s Office of Emergency Services (Cal OES) brought its Great California ShakeOut Tour to UCLA on Wednesday, marking the third stop of a four-city statewide campaign to strengthen ...