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The United States Geological Survey on Thursday deleted an alert for a reported earthquake near Danville, saying it was a false notification by a computer.
A seismologist at the USGS Earthquake Center in Golden, Colorado, said the notification was an automated message generated by a computer that analyzes seismometers. Seismologists in California evaluated the data and determined it was incorrect and they deleted the notification.
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