SF News Northern California, Nevada Rocked By Series Of Earthquakes Wednesday Residents of both California and Nevada were awakened early Wednesday by a series of 5.5-5.7 magnitude earthquakes that struck in a remote area near Lake Tahoe. The US Geological Survey reports
SF News Proposed Embarcadero Fire Station On Floating Pier Could Rise With Sea Levels, Withstand Earthquakes A recently floated plan to replace aging facilities at Pier 22 1/2 on the Embarcadero would put a crucial fire station on a barge or buoyant pier, a floating facility to support
SF News [Updated] Strong Aftershocks Follow 6.5 Magnitude Quake Off California Coast At least two significant aftershocks have followed a 6.5 magnitude earthquake that struck just off the Northern California coast Thursday morning. According to the US Geological Survey, the initial quake occurred at
SF News Four Small Earthquakes Rumble Through Oakland Early Wednesday Did you feel them? A cluster of four earthquakes centered near Mountain View Cemetery rocked the Oakland area, if gently, last night with the first at 2:05 a.m. That, KRON 4
SF News 6.9 Magnitude Offshore Earthquake In Japan Triggers Tsunami Warning For Fukushima An early morning earthquake struck off the Japanese coast Monday near Honshu triggering a tsunami warning for Fukushima prefecture, the same place that suffered devastating tsunami damage in the March 2011 earthquake there.
SF News New Study Finds Hayward Fault Connected To Second Fault, Potentially Making An Earthquake Much Worse As we ring in Disaster Anniversary week here in the Bay Area, some bad news comes via a new study published in the journal Science Advances. As KRON 4 reports, a team from
SF News Modest Earthquake Rocks The East Bay Tuesday A 3.5 magnitude earthquake struck the East Bay early Tuesday morning, reportedly awakening area residents with what was described by some as a "sharp jolt." According to the US Geological Survey, the
SF News More Than 18 Earthquakes Have Hit The Hollister Area Since Sunday An earthquake swarm has been rattling San Benito County in the vicinity of Hollister for several days now, with two low-magnitude quakes striking this morning as well. As SF Gate reports, the pair
SF News Hayward City Workers Accidentally Destroy Longtime Geo-Pilgrimage Site On Hayward Fault A curb that sits directly atop one section of the Hayward Fault in the East Bay, well known to earthquake science nerds and the local geological community since the 1970's but apparently not
SF News Today In History, San Francisco Shook And Caught Fire "We are in the ring of fire. The Big One is coming." #1906quake remembrance in #SF #LottasFountain pic.twitter.com/fKeUOm8lgl— Ron Lin, LA Times (@ronlin) April 18, 2016 On April 18, 1906
SF News The Embarcadero, And SF's Seawall, Could Cost $3 Billion To Shore Up Against An Earthquake File under one more thing to worry about: Parts of the Embarcadero and the man-made seawall that rings the Bayfront could present a "greater than expected risk" of failure in a major earthquake.
SF News Anniversary Of Fatal NorCal Tsunami Prompts Ocean Beach Seawall Questions 52 years after an an 8.8 magnitude earthquake in Alaska caused a fatal Northern California tsunami, experts warn that the seawall at Ocean Beach would do little to protect San Francisco if
SF News Bill Del Monte, Last Survivor Of 1906 Earthquake, Dead At 109 In April 1906, more than 1,000 people died in San Francisco during the great 7.7 to 8.3 magnitude earthquake, and its ensuing fires. But not William "Bill" Del Monte. And
SF News Twin Earthquakes Strike Northern And Southern California Within Minutes Of Each Other Once again drawing my paranoid mind back to Eve's favorite movie San Andreas, a pair of theoretically unrelated earthquakes struck hundreds of miles from each other Tuesday evening within just 13 minutes. The
Arts & Entertainment Video: Sleep Soundly Knowing This 'Earthquake Bed' Will Entomb You In The Event Of Disaster It's late and you can't sleep. You're up thinking about the Big One — the inevitable quake coming for us all, at any moment in the minds of our mothers. But have you considered
SF News Swarm Of Small Earthquakes Rocks San Ramon For Second Day A series of quakes that began Tuesday evening in and around San Ramon continued through the day Wednesday and into Thursday morning according to the US Geological Survey. This morning has already played
SF News Renowned Insurer Ranks The Worst Things That Could Happen To San Francisco Though a huge earthquake is often mentioned when discussing either San Francisco's utter destruction or the only way one might be able to afford property, it won't be the worst thing to happen
SF News The Sacramento River Delta Could Have Its Own Katrina-Like Levee Disaster As you may or may not be aware, the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta is made up of a series of levees, all of which protect a freshwater source that supplies water to two-thirds
SF News One Year Ago Today, The Napa Earthquake Rocked The Bay Area Officially dubbed the 2014 South Napa Earthquake, the quake that struck at 3:20 a.m. last August 24th officially marks its one-year anniversary today. The quake only caused minor shaking in San
SF News Aftershocks Rattled The Bay Area For Hours Monday Morning That 4.0 magnitude earthquake rattled us out of bed at 6:49 this morning might have been the biggest bang of the day (we hope!), but that doesn't mean the Hayward Fault
SF News 4.0 Magnitude Earthquake Gets The Bay Area's Monday Going Good morning, Bay Area! That's what the Hayward Fault appeared to be saying, as it rocked those of us who were lingering in bed out of it with a 4.0 magnitude quake
SF News 3.3 Magnitude Earthquake Jostles San Francisco A 3.3 magnitude earthquake struck the Bay Area at 1:26 this afternoon, with a jolt that was felt in San Francisco and beyond. According to the US Geological Survey, the quake
SF News Reminder: We Are Still Due For A Big Earthquake On The Hayward Fault Scientists and KRON 4 are using Tuesday morning's tiny quake on the Hayward Fault as an excuse to remind us all that a big and potentially deadly earthquake is due "any day now,
SF News 4.0 Magnitude Earthquake Strikes Bay Area, Delays BART Tuesday Morning Bit of a late start this AM, esp on Fremont line as we conduct track inspections due to minor quake. 15-20 minute delays systemwide.— SFBART (@SFBART) July 21, 2015 BART's began service later
SF News More Frightening Talk About The Devastating Earthquake Likely Coming To The Pacific Northwest Those who live in Seattle and Portland may have heard inklings of this for many years, but increasingly the geological and seismic science community are sounding alarm bells about a potentially massive and
