On Thursday morning, a 5.9 magnitude earthquake was reported in Nevada by the United States Geological Survey (USGS), causing phones to buzz as far away as San Francisco.
The quake, initially registered as a magnitude of 6.2, supposedly struck at a depth of six miles near Walker, California, about 20 miles east of Lake Tahoe.
However, shortly after the alert, the USGS had deleted information about the event from its website and the quake was removed from the USGS map.…