NEVADA -- Many residents in California got an alert Thursday morning from the MyShake App notifying them a 5.9 earthquake struck in western Nevada.

However, the USGS has confirmed it was a false alarm and there was no earthquake.

In a social media post, USGS ShakeAlert says that the alerts are canceled and they are "currently looking into why the alerts were issued."

The USGS website originally had a map of the quake centered in Dayton, Nevada, which is northeast of Carson City and Lake Tahoe. That notice was then removed from the map, and the website said "the requested event has been deleted."

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