SF News Hayward Fault Earthquake Scenario Imagines 52,000 Homes On Fire, 800 Deaths In commemorating the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake, it can't be all about the memories and history. A bigger earthquake is going to hit the Bay Area, and we can't be in denial about the kind of destruction it could leave behind.
SF News Bay Bridge Bolts Show More 'Ominous' Cracks, May Not Even Be Safe To Drive On The saga of the cracked bolts on the Bay Bridge's two-year-old eastern span continues as experts testified Tuesday at a bridge oversight panel meeting. Even though there was a minor bit of good
SF News Loma Prieta 25 Years Later: What The Quake Felt Like For A Kid For the last few days SFist has been running videos from various sources documenting the 6.9-magnitude Loma Prieta Earthquake and its aftermath, marking the quake's 25th anniversary, which is today. Everyone who
SF News Loma Prieta 25 Years Later: The Times Warns Portland They May Be Worse Off Than Us, Seismically In remembrance of the Loma Prieta earthquake which happened 25 years ago Friday, on October 17, 1989 SFist will be devoting some special coverage to the historical record of the quake itself, and
SF News New Study Reminds Us We Need An Earthquake Kit. Actually, Four Earthquake Kits. A new study of the Bay Area's fault lines set to be published today in the Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America once again reminds us, as many experts have reminded us
SF News Has Your Building Been Earthquake-Shamed? The City of San Francisco has begun publicly shaming building owners who have not made necessary retrofits to their soft-story or wood-framed apartment buildings, or submitted a city questionnaire regarding their building's earthquake