false alarm
Example Sentences
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There are plenty of false alarms, carbon footprints and all, and the future is unknowable, but watch for symptoms.
The ShakeAlert system that warns about imminent shaking arriving from earthquakes sent a false alarm across California on Thursday morning for a magnitude 5.9 temblor that did not happen.
From Los Angeles Times
“After an extensive investigation, the incident was determined to be a false alarm,” the statement said.
From Los Angeles Times
Others, the sweet relief of a false alarm and disaster narrowly averted.
From Los Angeles Times
The ShakeAlert computer system that warns about the imminent arrival of shaking from earthquakes sent out a false alarm Thursday morning for a magnitude 5.9 temblor in Carson City, Nev., that did not actually happen.
From Los Angeles Times
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