EXTENSION: Research how the federal government responded to the April 1906 San Francisco earthquake and detail what precedents this set for future government responses to natural disasters.

Experts claim that the next big US quake will also occur along the San Andreas fault, where many of the biggest earthquakes in U.S. history have been recorded. In fact, the United States Geological ...

The year was 1925. The new “skyscraper” getting all the buzz was the planned Bank of Italy tower, which became an enduring ...

In California, where the next “Big One” is an always-looming threat, some lessons learned from the 1925 Santa Barbara quake ...

As the United States chase an end to a decade long wait for a Wimbledon singles champion, it hasn’t always been that way. It ...

Along San Francisco's Embarcadero, a groundbreaking experiment is revealing promising results. At the aging seawall, during low tide, a diver with the Port of San Francisco carefully removed nine ...

The San Francisco earthquake of 1906 is the deadliest earthquake in the history of the United States, and remains high on the ...

Alaska was jolted by a 7.3-magnitude earthquake on Wednesday afternoon. Tsunami information was not immediately available.

The restaurant and civic space Manny's is hosting a nightly four-part series called "Understanding Homelessness." On Tuesday, Kunal Modi, San Francisco chief of health, homelessness, and family ...

A late-night 2.9-magnitude earthquake shook the San Francisco Bay Area in California, the U.S. Geological Survey reported. The six-mile deep quake hit three miles from Fairview, which is about a ...

San Francisco has released new data that shows 24 city-owned buildings are at risk of collapsing from an earthquake. Even more are prone to serious damage according to ...