SF News Early-Morning Earthquakes Rattle South Bay Just a few days after a 4.4 magnitude earthquake hit the San Jose area, a second cluster of quakes has rattled the South Bay, the United States Geological Survey reported this morning.
SF News Armageddon Yet? 4.4M Earthquake Strikes San Jose As if this day couldn't get any more dramatic for the Bay Area, a modest but detectable in San Francisco tremor just rocked the South Bay, centered at Alum Rock, 12 miles east
SF News Earthquake Early Warning System Still Isn't Ready, $26M And 11 Years Later In yet another example of how America can't seem to fund projects that are actually important or finish them in any reasonable amount of time, the West Coast earthquake warning system known as
SF News Did You Feel It?: 3.3M Earthquake Rattles San Jose Area A small earthquake shook part of the South and East Bays this morning at 10:32 a.m., and the USGS is saying it had a magnitude of 3.3 and was centered
SF News [Update] Did You Feel It? Earthquake Strikes Near San Francisco Zoo If you felt a little rattled as you got ready for work this morning, you weren't alone: According to the US Geological Survey, that shaking you felt was an earthquake just off the
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 Sinking Millennium Tower Would Survive 'The Big One,' Experts Insist We’re huge fans of watching San Francisco get destroyed in Hollywood disaster films here at SFist, and I'd bet there are some people who'd pay good money to see a movie where
SF News Early-Morning Earthquake Rattles Central Coast Some residents of Monterey and San Benito counties got an early alarm clock this morning, when a 4.0 magnitude earthquake shook them awake. According to the US Geological Survey, the earthquake struck
SF News Lunchtime Links: 3.9 Magnitude Earthquake Strikes Off The Coast Of Eureka Low temperatures overnight caused frosts in the Bay Area's valleys this morning. [National Weather Service Bay Area/Twitter] At 11:19 a.m. Monday, an earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 3.9
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
