Why did phones and public speakers across Japan blare an emergency warning for a magnitude 9.9 earthquake today? The answer is a system error. The quake that actually struck was a magnitude 6.9 near Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula, and the warning was withdrawn minutes after it went out. What happened The Japan Meteorological Agency issued an […]

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