SF News Enforcement 'Nightmare' Looming As 1,500 SF Buildings Still Not Seismically Retrofitted Maybe you felt a little safer with yesterday's news that the sinking Millennium Tower could withstand an 8.0 magnitude earthquake. But perhaps the more relevant question is ‘Can the building I live
SF News Don't Panic Yet Actually, the scientists say that there's small earthquakes happening all the time and it's just that a few of these were more noticeable than others. The good news is it's not a harbinger
SF News Your Third (Third!) Berkeley Quake The Chron included a helpful link to a Google map of the area (why didn't think of that?), which shows that the epicenter was between Ashby Ave. and Highway 24, right off Claremont
SF News Look! Up in the Sky! It's a Skyscraper A bunch of developers have gotten together and proposed building some really fracking huge towers in the SOMA district at 1st and Mission We're talking taller than any other building in the city
misc Week In SFist: Hair, hair, hair, hair, hair, hair, hair! "Gimme head with hair/ Long beautiful hair/Shining, gleaming/Streaming, flaxen, waxen..." In 1906, we had the Big One. In 1989, we had Loma Prieta. In 2004, we had the Winter of Love.
misc SFist Rants: Emergency Kits Was anyone else a little unnerved to see that "major earthquake in San Francisco" is listed as the number 2 scenario for FEMA practice, right below "terrorist attack on New York" and right
SF News Nancy Pelosi Gets a Lift We San Franciscan's like to think that we come from a brave and hearty stock. Constantly living under the fear of the next Big One, we're the inheritors of a proud tradition of