The United States Geological Survey shared and removed a report of a 5.9-magnitude earthquake within a 30-minute span on Thursday (December 4).
The earthquake was reported to have struck near Dayton, Nevada, at 8:06 a.m. local time and was reported to have a depth of nearly five miles. The post was then deleted as of 8:20 a.m. local time, with the USGS confirming that it was investigating the situation in a post shared on its ShakeAlert X account.
“@USGS#ShakeAlert confirms that the earthquake alerts that were delivered at 8:06am are cancelled. There was no M5.9 earthquake near Carson City, NV. We are currently looking into why the alerts were issued. We’ll provide more information when we learn more @Cal_OES@CAGeoSurvey,” the post states…