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
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
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&
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
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
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, "
SF News UC Berkeley Receives Early Warning Earthquake Grant A couple times in the last two years we've mentioned talk of developing an earthquake early warning system -- something like what they have in Japan -- which would give all of us
Arts & Entertainment Kevin Spacey Responds to Last Week's Earthquakes "Canst thou quake and change thy color/ Murder thy breath in middle of a word." - Kevin Spacey on stage as Richard III, heard post-quake by Chronicle scribe Leah Garchik, or
Arts & Entertainment The Great California ShakeOut 2011 Hits Thursday, 10/20 Next Thursday, October 20th, the annual Great California ShakeOut earthquake drill, reportedly the third largest in history, will take place at 10:20 a.m., once again reminding us to continue working on
SF News Meanwhile, Beneath the Surface of the Earth: A 3.3 Earthquake Rumbles the East Bay Exploding manholes, gas leaks and now a 3.3 magnitude earthquake strikes 2 miles Southeast of Oakland at 4:47 p.m. This is the third little temblor (and the second 3-point-
SF News Multiple Earthquakes Gently Tickle San Francisco Did you feel that one? What about this one? Those two earthquakes hit within 5 minutes of each other on either side of the city: the first was a 3.5 on the
SF News Tiny Whisper of a 2.9 Earthquake Gently Reminds San Franciscans We Could Fall Into the Ocean at Any Moment Did you feel it? Of course you did. Everyone's been on edge since DC rattled. And you've been whispering hail marys and knocking on wood every time you hear
SF News Meanwhile, in New Zealand: Post-Earthquake Liquefaction Swallows Entire Vehicle Pardon us while we burst your San Francisco bubble for a moment: The city of Christchurch, New Zealand was tossed about by 6.0, 5.5 and 4.4-magnitude earthquakes this weekend.
SF News Did You Feel That?: 3.5 Quake Strikes 9 Miles From S.F. A magnitude 3.5 earthquake just rolled through here about 10 minutes ago, centered 3 miles west-southwest of Daly City on the good old San Andreas. [USGS]
SF News 4.7 Magnitude Quake Hits Los Angeles A moderate earthquake rattled greater Los Angeles for 10 to 15 seconds last evening around 8:40 p.m., and it was felt as far south as San Diego. No major damage has
Arts & Entertainment Today in Earthquakes: '06 Remembrance, Earthquake Readiness Funding Tomorrow morning at 5:11 a.m. our fair city will mark the 103rd anniversary of the great quake of '06, which will once again include guest of honor and one of
SF News Oh No, Ed Jew!: Forever in the Spotlight The supernatural forces behind the Ed Jew storyline are not pleased with Halloween and earthquakes hogging all of the attention. As of today, Ed Jew officially has his fourth legal suit brought up
SF News Your Earthquake Review Either under the table for protection or hiding from someone sporting a fiendish fannypack-khakis combo, Catherine Kilkenny of San Jose's Willow Glen looks scared as all hell, doesn't
SF News Shark Attack in Monterey It's been a busy day in the Bay Area. We guess that JAWS was feeling a little bit left out of all the action and thought today might be a good
SF News Another Earthquake! As we only learned from reading the comments on our whiny post about the weather, there was just an earthquake in Berkeley about 30 minutes ago. It was a 3.0, centered near
SF News Say Hello to Your New Soccer Friend Wolff is planning on getting a soccer only stadium built in San Jose by 2010 but up until then, he's thinking of barnstorming the team around the Bay. If they had
Arts & Entertainment Workin' for the Weekend Friday, March 2, 2007 Earlybird Special: Fukwerk Fridays @ 111 Minna Roll up your sleeves and loosen your tie with loungy beats and discounted booze -- and hey, check out the art of Brazilian urban
SF News I Feel The Earth, Move Under My Feet So we were watching TV and listening to the wind whip around outside and then the wind got really loud and then everything started shaking and we thought, "hmmm, that's
