SAN FRANCISCO — A surprising 3.7 magnitude earthquake struck the San Francisco Bay Area Friday night, startling rush hour commuters as the second such temblor in Northern California in just over ...

A late-night 2.9-magnitude earthquake shook the San Francisco Bay Area in California, the U.S. Geological Survey reported.

San Francisco has assigned a seismic hazard score to hundreds of city-owned buildings. Some key ones, including a jury duty ...

In the heart of California, the San Andreas Fault lies like a ticking time bomb, silently building pressure for over a century. Stretching more than 1,200 kilometers, this massive fault marks the ...

The latest earthquake to strike San Francisco comes as demonstrations in the city descended into violent clashes. At least 60 people were arrested on Sunday and two police officers were injured.

Reporting from San Francisco — On the ground once marked by devastation, a new city is rising. The deadly 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake battered the gritty South of Market district, damaging the ...

The Loma Prieta earthquake, measuring 6.9 on the Richter scale, hit the San Francisco Bay Area on Oct. 17, 1989, at 5:04 p.m. local time during Game 3 of the World Series between the Oakland ...

San Francisco city leaders, historians, and community members woke up early Thursday morning to commemorate 118 years since a massive earthquake and fire destroyed much of the city in 1906.

A ceremony was held in downtown San Francisco early Friday morning to mark 119 years since much of the city was destroyed from the 1906 earthquake and fire that followed. In a ceremony that began ...

Ansel Adams, age 4, survived the deadly 1906 San Francisco earthquake, but was tossed face-first into a garden wall, giving him what his friend Cedric Wright would call an "earthquake nose." ...