SF News 3.6M Earthquake Felt In SF Comes After Series of Small Temblors In Hayward Is something happening on the Hayward Fault? We can't say if these are precursors to something bigger or just your average minor earthquake swarm. But the Hayward Fault has been moving today.
SF News 3.4M Earthquake Centered In East Bay Felt In SF Saturday Morning There was just an earthquake in the Bay Area Saturday morning, a small 3.4M tremor that was centered on the Hayward Fault just south of the UC Berkeley campus.
SF News Yep, That Was a 3.4M Earthquake In SF, With an Epicenter Apparently Just Off the Coast Didja feel it? A 3.4-magnitude earthquake shook San Francisco just after 1:30 p.m. Friday afternoon, and fortunately, no damage is being reported.
SF News Fault That Caused Massive 2014 Napa Earthquake May Be Far More Dangerous Than We Realize New geological research indicates that the West Napa Fault, which caused the destructive and deadly 2014 Napa quake, may be nine miles longer and potentially much deadlier than previously thought.
SF News Great Shakeout Earthquake Drills Scheduled for Thursday, Which Means Yet More Earthquake Alerts Your phone may be blaring another earthquake alert Thursday morning at 10:19 a.m., as California and the nation at large encourage earthquake kits and preparedness with the Great Shakeout earthquake drill.
SF News 4.1M Earthquake Centered In Sacramento River Delta Prompts ShakeAlert on SF Phones A 4.1M earthquake centered in Isleton, in Sacramento County, prompted an Emergency Alert on phones in the Bay Area from the ShakeAlert system — though you might not have felt any shaking in SF.
SF News 34 Years Ago Today, the Bay Was Shaken By the Loma Prieta Quake, and One Local News Anchor Stayed as Cool as Can Be The Bay Area's last major earthquake over 6.5 in magnitude occurred 34 years ago today, on a day when the San Francisco Giants and Oakland A's were coming onto the field for their first-ever Bay Bridge Series.
SF News Today Marks the Nine-Year Anniversary of the 6.0 Napa Earthquake That Injured 208 People Wine country was rocked nine years ago today by the South Napa Earthquake, which caused at least $400 million worth of damage to the county, and caused one death and more than 200 injuries.
SF News 4.3M Earthquake and 3.9M Aftershock Jolt Santa Rosa Area, Cause Minor Damage A pair of earthquakes in quick succession Tuesday evening jolted and rattled Sonoma County, particularly in and around Santa Rosa where the epicenter was.
SF News 4.4M Earthquake Hits Same Place Near California-Nevada Border As One 13 Months Ago A significant, 4.4M earthquake struck an area south of Topaz Lake Monday afternoon, with an epicenter very near that of a 5.9M quake that hit in July 2021.
SF News Did You Feel It? 3.9M Hayward Fault Earthquake Centered Near San Leandro Felt In SF Just before 6:30 p.m. on Monday, a 3.9-magnitude earthquake struck in the East Bay was felt all over the Bay Area.
SF News 4.2M Earthquake Near Sonoma/Lake County Border Felt In SF A small-ish earthquake that struck before noon on Monday was felt throughout Sonoma and Napa counties and as far as Solano County and San Francisco to the east and south.
SF News 3.0M Earthquakes Rock East Bay, Wine Country Saturday Morning A 3.0 magnitude tremor shook the ground near Livermore around 4:50 a.m. Saturday morning— and that earthquake was followed by a slightly larger, more apparent one in Calistoga less than three hours later.
SF News Many Bay Area Hospitals at Risk of Earthquake Collapse, 12 Years Past Retrofit Deadline More than 40 California hospitals are well past their seismic compliance deadline, and a group of Bay Area hospitals are at significant risk of collapsing in an earthquake.
SF News MyShake Early-Warning Earthquake Alert Gets First Use In San Luis Obispo Quake For reasons of geography, apparently, and the low number of people who have downloaded the app, and earthquake warning only went about to about 40 people on Tuesday in San Luis Obispo County ahead of a 4.3M earthquake.
Arts & Entertainment Multiple Whales Were Breaching Wildly In Monterey Bay Right After Tuesday Earthquake Moments after the Tuesday afternoon 4.7M earthquake near Hollister, at least seven humpback whales were spotted simultaneously breaching, six of them in pairs, off the Monterey coast. Coincidence?
SF News SF Sends Out Citywide Alert Test to Everyone's Cellphone, Slightly Late On Thursday evening, a scheduled test of a new citywide emergency alert system took place, 30 to 60 minutes behind schedule, but nonetheless seemingly successfully. Still, it freaked a lot of people out.
SF News Loma Prieta at 30: Bay Area Residents Remember Where They Were When The Quake Struck To wrap up our commemorative coverage of the Loma Prieta earthquake today, SFist brings you some memories sent in from readers of what their October 17, 1989 experiences were like here in the Bay Area.
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 Loma Prieta at 30: 'I Was the Guy Driving the Pickup Behind the Disappearing Car in the Video on the Bay Bridge' An immediately famous bit of video shot on the Bay Bridge in the moments after the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake showed two cars driving on the damaged eastern span, with one, a sedan, dropping into the gap created when a 50-foot segment of the upper deck collapsed.
SF News Earthquake Early Warning System Launches 13 Years After Project Began Today, on the 30th anniversary of the Loma Prieta earthquake, Governor Gavin Newsom, State Senator Jerry Hill, and a group of scientists announced the official launch of California's Earthquake Early Warning System.
SF News Loma Prieta at 30: Remembering the Horror of the Cypress Freeway Collapse As we get set to mark the 30th anniversary of the earthquake that massively shook the Bay Area on October 17, 1989, we're taking a moment to retell the history of the biggest tragedy of that day, via CHP footage and interviews with those who witnessed it.
SF News Monday's Pleasant Hill Earthquake Occurred On Previously Unknown Fault Pretty much none of the quotes from experts or news reports about Monday night's 4.5M earthquake in the East Bay — or the recent swarm of mini-quakes in other parts of the Bay Area — have been comforting or satisfying. Least of all this.
SF News Yet Another Earthquake, This One 4.7M, Strikes Near Hollister The Bay Area earthquake swarm continued Tuesday afternoon with another not-insignificant temblor just south of the Bay Area, centered in a remote area near Hollister.
SF News Did You Feel It? Another Small Earthquake Shakes SF, This One 4.5M So, the little earthquakes are getting bigger? It means nothing. It's just the 30th anniversary of Loma Prieta. Pure coincidence.
