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
SF News 3.4 Earthquake Hits Bay Area At around 8:55 a.m. this morning, an earthquake measuring 3.4 struck the Milpitas area, followed by a 3.0 quake at 8:38 a.m., according to the U.S.
SF News 7.8 Earthquake Simulation Hits Los Angeles, Can San Francisco's Be Far Behind? LAist Editor Zach Behrens was neither injured nor trapped under a pile of rubble during today's 7.8 earthquake simulation that hit Los Angeles, one of the largest earthquake drills to take place.
SF News 3.0 Earthquake Hits Fairfield Did you feel it? It happened at 2:57 p.m., according to the news ticker scolling above Judge Marilyn Milian's head. More to come as we know more.
SF News Where Will You Be During the "Katrina-Style Disaster" Predicted for the Bay Area? When the Hayward fault loudly declares itself to all, Loma Prieta will seem like it was just a relaxing massage. According to Wired, the fault will give the Bay Area "a Katrina-like disaster.
SF News Did You Feel That? Small one, but we felt an earthquake over in SoMa. Did you? Looks like it was a 3.1 centered in Piedmont, which happened at 4:19 p.m. Wee! Scary Friday fun!
SF News Earthquake Clips: Big Brother, Judge Judy Since there's no reason every other blog and MSM outlet out there gets to milk yesterday's 5.4 LA earthquake and not us, check out these two pieces of caught-on-tape footage fun. First
SF News Best Earthquake Twitter Comment <del>of the Day</del> Ever We're not sure if this is painful, or exciting, or both, but MissRFTC tweets, "I am totally serious. My Ob/Gyn was IN my vagina and an earthquake started rattling the room!" See,
SF News <del>5.8</del> 5.4 Earthquake Shakes Los Angeles "A Strong Earthquake Has Shaken Los Angeles," or so says this jarring single headline on CBS 5. You know anything more? We'll update as soon as we do. Update 11:45 a.m.
misc Photo du Jour 141 Well, wait no more. Both ends of the Bay Area felt two quakes this morning. Minor 2.1 and 2.2 movers. That's all. But the tiny ones, of course, are good reminders
misc Quote of the Day: Sharon Stone Former Marin resident and current insane person, Sharon Stone, made the following Jerry Falwell-ish quip the other day. They're not being very nice to the Dali Lama, who's a good friend of mine
SF News 3.2 Quake Jolts The Geysers A small shaker hit The Geysers near the border of Sonoma and Lake counties at 6:28 a.m. this morning, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. No one was hurt. It
SF News 24 Hours of NERT Earth! Oh, and here are some tips from the NERT (National Neighborhood Emergency Response Team), care of Ed Chu of the San Francisco Fire department. It's not the most entertaining bit of footage you'll
SF News Did You Feel It?: Small Quake Shakes East Bay An earthquake registering 3.2 hit the East Bay this morning, located five miles south of Antioch. The quake happened four hours ager a smaller 3.1 quake hit Reno last night.. There
SF News 6.0 Nevada Earthquake Reminds Bay Area To Get Ready Oh dear. A hefty-sized earthquake hit northeastern Nevada this morning. You know what that means, don't you? Time to sound the alarm for everyone in the Bay Area to get prepared. Not sure
