Oops! Uh, No Tsunami in San Francisco Friday

SAN FRANCISCO, CA - A test of San Francisco's emergency alert system Friday morning created some alarm when it erroneously reported a tsunami watch.

The alert was sent by email, text message and Twitter at 8:46 a.m., warning of a possible tsunami in San Francisco due to a 6.7-magnitude earthquake at "tom's house."

Five minutes later, a second alert was issued, clarifying the message was in error.

San Francisco's Department of Emergency Management issued an apology for the alarming message, saying that it was sent as part of a system test of the city's emergency alert system AlertSF.

"We are reviewing the error in order to make a recommendation on how to prevent this type of incident from occurring again," emergency management officials said.

More information about the AlertSF system is available at www.alertsf.org.

--Bay City News; Image via Shutterstock