(Los Angeles Times) Remember Y2K, that hyped computer bug and harbinger of digital apocalypse that never happened when the year 2000 arrived?
Well, 17 years later, it appears something like a Y2K bug played a role in a mistaken alert for a magnitude 6.8 earthquake sent out Wednesday about an earthquake off the Santa Barbara coast — back in 1925.
The error happened when someone at Caltech tried to correct the exact location recorded for the Prohibition-era Santa Barbara earthquake, which happened 92 years ago.