Arts & Entertainment Ask A San Francisco Native: Where Were You During The 1989 Quake? Dear Rain, Where were you in the 1989 quake? If we had another quake of that magnitude today, would SF be better or worse off, in your opinion? Signed, Shaky Dear Shaky, On
SF News Day Around The Bay: Moon Cycles May Affect Earthquakes Follow SFist on Twitter and Instagram, and like us on Facebook. You can also get the top stories mailed to you—sign up here. The New York Times just published a good piece
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 Two Earthquakes Strike Area Of Burning Man Site In Three Days In three days, the "playa," a remote portion of the Nevada desert that becomes a makeshift city of 70,000 during the annual Burning Man festival, has experienced two earthquakes. The AP reported
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 Cool So, This Downtown Santa Rosa Earthquake Fault Is Larger Than We Thought A new US Geological Survey report from Menlo Park scientists led by Suzanne Hecker breaks new ground on mapping a formerly undocumented fault in the heart of Santa Rosa. The Chronicle reports that
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
SF News New Theory Holds San Andreas Might Be A 'Zipper Fault' A new theory presented at the annual meeting of the American Geophysical Union is shaking up the seismologist world (they are likely tired of this joke, but will, I'm sure, understand). Live Science
SF News The Hundreds Of Earthquakes That Hit San Ramon This Past Week Don't Mean Anything (Probably) Remember the earthquake swarm that hit San Ramon last week? The one on the Calaveras Fault, which is a branch of the San Andreas Fault that runs under the far East Bay? Well,
SF News Cool New Maps Show The Seafloor Beneath The Golden Gate, Point Reyes A USGS project called the California Seafloor Mapping Program, ongoing since 2007, has just produced some pretty and highly detailed new maps of the seafloor of the San Francisco Bay and our immediate
SF News How the Public Utilities Commission Is Planning To Get You Drinkable Water After An Earthquake I'm sure you've heard that your earthquake kit is supposed to have three days worth of drinking water in it. But in case you haven't been able to pull that together, or if
SF News Northbound 280 Closes Tonight, Get Ready For 'Horrendous' Traffic Planning on heading north into San Francisco on 280 this weekend? Well, change those plans, because starting tonight and running until Monday morning, you can't. Tonight at 9 p.m. northbound Interstate Highway
Arts & Entertainment Gary Oldman Calls Nancy Pelosi A C*nt, Apologizes For Offending Jews Giving truth to the old saw that one "just reads Playboy for the articles," it seems like everyone's been talking about actor Gary Oldman's recent interview with the magazine, in which he made
SF News Did You Feel It? 6.9 Tremor Hits Off Coast Of Eureka A magnitude 6.9 quake struck 50 miles west off the coast of Eureka Sunday night at around 10:18 PM. There no reports of any damages or injuries. The tremor could be
SF News Mayor Lee To Make All Building Owners Do Soft-Story Retrofitting In honor of the anniversary of the Great Quake yesterday, Mayor Ed Lee signed some legislation that mandates that all owners of apartment buildings of five units or more that have soft stories
SF News Map: Will My Apartment Be Underwater If We Get Hit With A Tsunami? Just like a real tsunami, the awkwardly named National Tsunami Awareness Week caught us off guard today. What does one do for NTAW, exactly? Well, you start by looking around you and figuring
SF News California's Earthquake Alert System is Pathetic California is home to the world's most powerful and innovative tech companies, and yet when it comes to having the foggiest notion that an earthquake is coming, we're pretty screwed. Our current technology
SF News Map: Will Your Apartment Building Disintegrate Into Dust When The Big One Hits? This handy map based on data from the city's Department of Building Inspection and published by the S.F. Public Press will tell you (albeit with a frighteningly large degree of uncertainty). To
SF News Tiny Offshore Earthquake Reminds Bay Area That A Transbay Series Could Sink Us All This morning at around 7 a.m., a tiny but significant 2.4 magnitude earthquake shifted some things around on the ocean floor about six miles off the coast of San Francisco. This
SF News Afternoon Palate Cleanser: 'Future Map of the United States' Speaking of earthquakes, we once knew a dude who claimed to have visions and things, and he had this "Future Map of the United States" hanging in the living room. It's a map
SF News American Heartland No Longer Spared From Earthquakes, Says USGS Study According to a new study from the US Geological Survey, the great American flyover states from Colorado to Kentucky experienced an "unprecedented" increase in the number of 3.0 or greater magnitude earthquakes
SF News Is Fracking In California Going To Cause Earthquakes? Did you know that there was fracking going on in hundreds of locations around California, including some in nearby Monterey County? Well, there is, and a new report just came out about it,
SF News Did You Feel It? 3.7 Magnitude Earthquake Rumbles Near Vallejo USGS reports a 3.7 magnitude temblor just shook the earth a few miles south of Vallejo around 6:10 p.m. this evening. We didn't feel it down near Union Square where
SF News Tiny Overnight Earthquake Fails To Inconvenience Anyone Late last night, around 11 p.m. when everyone but the USGS was asleep, a tiny 2.3-magnitude earthquake struck about a mile northeast of Berkeley. According to Bay City News, "many Berkeley
