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

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

On June 4, however, as Alan left an immigration hearing in Lower Manhattan, he was handcuffed by masked federal agents and ...

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

So, for every magnitude 8, like the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, there are 10 Loma Prieta-sized earthquakes, and 100 Napa-sized earthquakes, and 1,000 magnitude 5 earthquakes.

At 5:12 a.m. on April 18, 1906, San Francisco shook violently. A 7.9 magnitude earthquake struck just 2 miles off the coast.

‘You are in danger!’: Mad chaos as San Francisco scrambled for a tsunami that never came As their phones blew up with disaster warnings, some Bay Area residents ran for the hills – while ...

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.