San Francisco has assigned a seismic hazard score to hundreds of city-owned buildings. Some key ones, including a jury duty ...

The San Francisco earthquake of 1906 is the deadliest earthquake in the history of the United States, and remains high on the ...

A late-night 2.9-magnitude earthquake shook the San Francisco Bay Area in California, the U.S. Geological Survey reported.

Impact: The 1933 earthquake was Southern California’s deadliest in the modern record, leaving nearly 120 dead and causing $40 million in property damage. In the past, this fault has started ...

A preliminary 3.7 magnitude earthquake struck Wednesday morning off the coast of Northern California, according to the United ...

A surprising earthquake shakes San Francisco commuters during the evening rush home. The quake was the second such tremblor in less than 10 days.

The Loma Prieta earthquake, measuring 6.9 on the Richter scale, hit the San Francisco Bay Area on Oct. 17, 1989, at 5:04 p.m. local time during Game 3 of the World Series between the Oakland ...

A ceremony was held in downtown San Francisco early Friday morning to mark 119 years since much of the city was destroyed from the 1906 earthquake and fire that followed.

It is a new day, San Francisco. Literally and figuratively, according to Mayor Daniel Lurie’s 5 a.m. remarks at the 119th commemoration of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. “We’ve gone through some ...

SAN FRANCISCO -- Over three decades after the powerful Loma Prieta earthquake struck, some experts maintain that the strongest quake to hit the Bay Area since 1906 could have been much more ...

EXTENSION: Research how the federal government responded to the April 1906 San Francisco earthquake and detail what precedents this set for future government responses to natural disasters.