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Heavy rain, flooding could soak parts of California during the holidays

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By Kevin Stark Verified
| NPR Verified
Heavy rain, flooding could soak parts of California during the holidays Heavy rain, flooding could soak parts of California during the holidays Audio will be available later today. A series of atmospheric rivers are threatening California with heavy rain and potential flooding during the holiday week.
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Earthquake alert that startled Oakland this morning was a false alarm

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By Kevin Stark Verified, Darwin BondGraham Verified
| The Oaklandside Verified
An erroneous alert for an earthquake that did not occur went out Thursday morning. Screenshot: MyShake Editors’ note: This story first appeared on KQED. Phones across Northern California lit up this morning with a notice warning of an earthquake in Nevada, and urging people to “drop, cover and hold on” — an alert that turned out to be a false alarm. The U.S. Geological Survey quickly canceled the warning and posted a statement online that said there was no earthquake at all.
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The M5.9 Earthquake Alert That Startled the Bay Area This Morning Was a False Alarm

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By Kevin Stark Verified
| KQED-TV (San Francisco,CA) Verified
Dec 4, 2025 Updated 10:21 am PT Failed to save article Please try again The nation's first statewide Earthquake Early Warning System, also known as the MyShake app, developed by professor Richard Allen, director of the UC Berkeley Seismological Laboratory, is displayed in Oakland, California, on Oct. 17, 2019. The USGS quickly canceled a warning from MyShake on Thursday morning, and is looking into what triggered it.
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