Dec 4 - The United States Geological Survey said on Thursday that its automatic earthquake detection system had erroneously sent out a report earlier in the day that a 5.9 magnitude earthquake had struck near Dayton, Nevada. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.

The US Geological Survey quickly deleted the alert, saying it had been sent in error. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.

The earthquake report was later deleted from the MyShake app — which carries earthquake early warnings from the U.S. Geological Survey’s ShakeAlert system — and from the USGS eart...