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

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

San Francisco has released new data that shows 24 city-owned buildings are at risk of collapsing from an earthquake. Even ...

Reporting from San Francisco — On the ground once marked by devastation, a new city is rising. The deadly 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake battered the gritty South of Market district, damaging the ...

San Francisco after the 1906 earthquake. Associated Press The billions of dollars of infrastructure, headquarters of global industries and the denser, more vertical downtown make San Francisco a ...

Although San Francisco did adopt a new building code in 1909 (after much of the city was already rebuilt or under construction), seismic safety lay largely dormant until the 1933 Long Beach quake ...

In California, where the next “Big One” is an always-looming threat, some lessons learned from the 1925 Santa Barbara quake ...

San Francisco: Memories of an Earthquake The San Franciso quake of 1906 killed more than 3,000 people and sent tens of thousands on the run. Many of those were children, paired off with siblings ...

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. In a ceremony that began ...