SF News Marina Yoga Studio Donates Old Mats for Haitian Relief Already sending readers into numbing states of fury at BoingBoing, The Pad, a yoga studio in the Marina district, put out this sign asking for old yoga mats to send to Port-au-Prince quake
SF News Another Quake Strikes Off Eureka Coast A 6.0 magnitude earthquake struck at 12:20 p.m., 35 miles west of Eureka, in the waters off the Humboldt coast right in the vicinity of the quake that hit on
SF News Haitian Freedom Rally At Market And Powell Today Although the brunt of this most recent storm is expected to arrive at around 5 p.m., a "Haitian freedom rally" will take place at Market and Powell today as well. It seems
SF News Soon You May Get a 60-Second Earthquake Warning Scientists at U.C. Berkeley say they are close to completing work on the first earthquake early warning system in the U.S., which could give us anywhere from a few seconds to
SF News Oakland Couple Returns Home Safely From Haiti Last week, our old pal Zennie reported that progressive activist couple Walter Riley and Barbara Rhine, both of Oakland, were missing after being in Haiti at the time of last week's earthquake. Walter's
SF News Another Easy Way To Donate To Haitian Earthquake Relief This one is super simple. If you'd like to donate to Haitian relief efforts -- the country experienced a 7.0 earthquake on Tuesday, resulting in at least 50,000 deaths, widespread destruction
SF News Donate To The Haiti Relief Effort Local blog Telling Compulsion (which we came across via Uptown Almanac) posted helpful information on specific international relief organizations one might want to donate to (as rated by Charity Watch) if they're looking
SF News State of Emergency Declared In Humboldt County After Saturday's 6.5 earthquake rattled northern California, Governor Schwarzenegger declared a state of emergency in Humboldt County. The governor announced yesterday that since the quake had "disrupted utilities and caused damage to
misc San Francisco's 1906 Earthquake, Now In Color by Jerry James Stone When you think of photos from the early 1900's, you probably don't picture them in color. They're probably more akin to Leave it to Beaver. But, in fact, color
SF News 6.5 Earthquake Hits Off Eureka Coast A little before 4:30 p.m. on Saturday, according to USGS, an earthquake of a 6.4/6.5 magnitude "struck 15 miles SW of Eureka at 4:28 p.m." This,
SF News And... Did You Feel That? So, yeah... aftershocks. There have apparently been 10 in total, including the 3.8 one this morning at 11:50 a.m. This was the largest aftershock so far, occurring "shallowly" at about
SF News Earthquake Hits Bay Area Did you feel that? KRON 4 reports this morning's quake was felt six miles northeast of Milpitas. We didn't feel it here at SFist HQ. But to be fair, Eve Batey at SF
SF News Remember: Emergency Sirens Go Off at 10:15 AM Today At 10:15 a.m. today, all 93 emergency sirens in San Francisco will go off. It's all part of the Great Shakeout. Millions of Californians will take part in in "the largest
SF News San Francisco Emergency Sirens: Tomorrow, Thursday, 10:15 AM Every week at noon, we hear SF emergency sirens fill the air with their hypothetical shrieking. This isn't unusual. What is unusual, and what you need to know, is that they will go
SF News Loma Prieta, 20 Years Later As many in the local news/blog firmament will be repeating this week, Saturday marks the 20th anniversary of the Loma Prieta earthquake, which was not such a doozy of a quake in
SF News Indonesia Quakes Remind You To Get Prepared This morning's 6.8 earthquake that followed yesterday's 7.6 shaker in Indonesia is the perfect opportunity to remind you to, please, get ready for the next big earthquake that will hit the
SF News Tsunami Advisory Lifted After yesterday's 8.0-magnitude earthquake created a tsunami around the Samoa islands, a tsunami advisory threatened the Pacific Coast. That threat, according to reports, has been lifted. A very slight tsunami lift was
SF News Japan Launches Earthquake Packs for Your Pets Manufacturer Oyagokoro, based in Japan, just launched a new line of earthquake packs, ones "designed to keep dogs and cats safe during such events," reports The Examiner. The kits come in three sizes,
SF News Big Earthquake Hits Alaska According to the scary red font at CBS 5, "A strong earthquake has just jolted urban centers of Alaska." Earthquake.usgs.gov, lists "5.7 Southern Alaska, 36 minutes ago." Which sounds like
SF News We Felt It! There was a small 3.2 quake that occurred in the East Bay at 3:30 p.m. today, one kilometer Northeast of El Cerrito. We at SFist felt it in the Tendernob
SF News Did You Feel It? A magnitude 3.0 earthquake, according to CBS 5, "has struck near Berkeley at 3:34. There are no immediate reports of damage or injuries." Tell us, readers, where were you during the
SF News Italy Quake Reminds You to Get Prepared. Now. A 6.3 earthquake killed more than 150 people in central Italy, making it the deadliest quake to hit the country in nearly three decades. According to reports, 10,000 to 15,000
SF News Earthquke Hits Bay Area, Centered in Morgan Hill Reports are coming in that there was a mild earthquake felt in San Francisco. We felt it too, but it could have been our the washing machine in the spin cycle. "I believe
SF News Morning Earthquakes Two small earthquakes struck the Bay Area over the weekend. First, a 3.5-magnitude quake centered 10 miles north of downtown San Jose rattled Sunday morning at 7:47 a.m. Then, a
SF News 3.0 Earthquake Sends NJ Citizens Into State of Panic Last night, at around 10.30 p.m., a 3.0 magnitude earthquake struck, centered a few miles away from Morristown, NJ. According to reports, New Jersey citizens lost it. "It sounded like
