
This photo illustration shows people with their smartphones showing an erroneous mega-earthquake alert with a magnitude of 9.1 on the Richter scale, and an intensity of 7 out of 7 on the Japanese scale, for Tokyo Bay on August 1, 2016. A false warning of a megaquake about to strike Tokyo was issued by Japan's weather agency and quickly cancelled on August 1, but not before terrifying users of a smartphone app who received it. / AFP PHOTO / TORU YAMANAKATORU YAMANAKA/AFP/Getty Images

