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.
SF News Loma Prieta at 30: Watch the Minutes After the Quake Live As is tradition, as Thursday marks the 30th anniversary of the 1989 earthquake in SF, we urge you all to watch KGO's Cheryl Jennings broadcast live like a pro even though everyone's power was out and hardly anyone was watching.
SF News 3.5M Quake Shakes Sleepy Saturday Morning Twitter was feeling it when an earthquake struck this morning, with an epicenter about four miles off the coast of Daly City’s Mussel Rock Park.
SF News New Study Finds That Most Big Earthquakes Are Preceded By Smaller Foreshocks A new study that looked at earthquakes in Southern California over the last decade found that 72 percent came after smaller, precursor quakes — and this could represent a breakthrough in the science of earthquake prediction.
Arts & Entertainment History Tid-Bit: Ministers In Berkeley Tried To Blame 1906 Earthquake on 'Wickedness' In San Francisco A headline from the Oakland Tribune dated May 9, 1906 asked the incendiary question, "Was the Earthquake and Fire Result of Alleged Wickedness In San Francisco?"
SF News Two Small Earthquakes Jolt The East Bay It's apparently earthquake season! Following big earthquakes in southeastern California over the July 4th holiday and aftershocks continuing through yesterday, as well as a small earthquake that rattled Morgan Hill Monday, there's now been a 4.3-magnitude quake east of Blackhawk in the East Bay.
SF News 28 Years Ago Loma Prieta Rocked, Cracked, And Crumbled The Bay Area It's hard to focus too heavily on the past today, after a week that has seen some of the worst and sure to be counted as the deadliest wildfires in state
SF News Day Around The Bay: Earthquake Swarm Hits Tahoe * Three could be sharp increases in healthcare premiums for SF’s elderly and poor under the Senate's now-stalled healthcare plan. [Chronicle] * A deplorable teen in Windsor has been arrested on
SF News Small Hayward Fault Earthquake Jiggles East Bay Felt two quick jolts in Berkeley from #earthquake Here's the feed of @BerkeleySeismo stations recording motion. Seems largest in SF pic.twitter.com/5QBWjJZkSK — Christopher Milliner (@Geo_GIF) June 21, 2017
SF News Yes, All That Winter Rain May Be Triggering Earthquakes As we discussed back in February, while we were in the throes of our wettest winter in recent memory, weather like we had can potentially have seismic effects, triggering earthquakes when the ground
SF News Millennium Tower's Earthquake Fitness Models May Not Have Been Accurate Residents of Millennium Tower have one more reason to shake their fists at the sky and/or file another lawsuit as a report comes to light from a structural engineering expert that suggests
SF News Great: Extended Heavy Rains Could Theoretically Trigger Earthquakes If the disasters wreaked upon multiple locales across California this winter aren't enough, all the rain we've had seeping into the ground could, potentially, cause groundwater pressures that induce
