Thursday, June 22, 2017

US earthquake warning sent 92 years late:


US earthquake warning sent 92 years late:
A warning for a massive earthquake off the coast of California was sent 92 years after the actual event happened due to a computer error on Thursday.The US Geological Survey issued a false alarm for a 6.8 magnitude earthquake that took place in 1925. News organisations across the US received the emailed alert about the quake which, if it had been real, would have been one of the largest ever recorded in California. The USGS said that the work it was doing to revise and update information about where the historic quake struck had caused its computer systems to misinterpret the data and think it was seeing a novel event.

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