The U.S. Geological Survey's Hawaiian Volcano Observatory recorded a magnitude-4.5 offshore natural disaster located southeast of Hawaiian Ocean View, Island of Hawaiʻi, on Wednesday, June 21, 2017, at 10:09 a.m. HST.
USGS geophysicist Rafael Abreu says researchers were working on the 1925 quake when the mistaken alert went out.
But suspiciously there were no tweets or posts from anyone having felt the temblor, which usually precede the official alerts and come in big numbers.
The Los Angeles Times was put in an especially bad spot.
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Scientists at the University of California Santa Barbara were adjusting records of an natural disaster that struck just off the U.S. West Coast in 1925, and when they shifted the precise epicenter of that century-old quake by 10 kilometers, a live alarm inadvertently went out on the USGS email server and was flashed to newsrooms and scientists worldwide.
The fake quake never appeared on the USGS website. The newspaper sent out a robotic story that it quickly had to retract.
The earthquake's epicenter was located about one kilometer west of Kensington, an unincorporated community located in the East Bay Hills between Berkeley and El Cerrito, according to the United States Geological Survey, or USGS. It listed the date as June 29, the same date as the 1925 quake. The USGS quickly explained what had happened, citing a software issue encountered while revising data about the 1925 quake. But the report said the quake happened in the year 2025.
The Santa Barbara natural disaster resulted in 13 deaths and some $8 million in damage.
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