An alert that notified Bay Area residents of a 5.9 earthquake Thursday morning in Nevada was deleted by the U.S. Geological Survey.

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The ShakeAlert message at 8:08 a.m. said the quake was about 15 miles east of Carson City, near Dayton. Within minutes, though, the notification was deleted.

ShakeAlert uses buried sensors to send earthquake notifications to millions of mobile phone users.

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