Swift legislative action In the 1930s, public earthquake awareness was in its infancy. The San Andreas Fault was mostly mapped following the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, reports the Los Angeles ...

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.

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 ...

City of Pinole hit by an earthquake at the same time as anti-immigration raids protests were taking place in downtown San Francisco.

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 ...

An earthquake shook parts of the San Francisco Bay Area early Monday morning.

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.