The Bay Area learned first hand what the force of a tsunami can do when an earthquake struck Japan in 2011, sending strong waves surging into Santa Cruz Harbor, leaving heavy damage. In 1964, a 9. ...

The Bay area has been seismically quiet at the M ≥5.5 level since the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake and its 1990 aftershocks, which contrasts with the 10 years before 1989, when five M 5.5–6.2 ...

Tsunami hazard map: The Bay Area neighborhoods you should flee on foot If you’re there when a long earthquake hits, walk to safety in the green zone ...

The map was released by the USGS in Menlo Park. The faults in blue and green have a very low rupture hazard over the next 30 years. Yellow faults have a 6 percent risk of a 6.7 or larger quake in ...

The last significant damaging earthquake in the Bay Area was the 6.0 South Napa Quake on Aug. 24, 2014, which killed 1 person, injured 300 and caused $1 billion in damage in Napa and Vallejo.

A series of small earthquakes shook the San Francisco Bay Area on Thursday, according to the United States Geological Survey. The earthquakes all struck near Hayward, Calif., just south of Oakland ...

A minor, 3.9-magnitude earthquake struck in the San Francisco Bay Area on Monday, according to the United States Geological Survey. The temblor happened at 7:46 p.m. Pacific time about 3 miles ...

The last significant damaging earthquake in the Bay Area was the 6.0 South Napa Quake on Aug. 24, 2014, which killed 1 person, injured 300 and caused $1 billion in damage in Napa and Vallejo.

The last significant damaging earthquake in the Bay Area was the 6.0 South Napa Quake on Aug. 24, 2014, which killed 1 person, injured 300 and caused $1 billion in damage in Napa and Vallejo.