More than a century after the devastating 1906 earthquake, dozens of buildings still pose serious collapse risks in a major quake.

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

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 ...

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. ...

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 ...

Tsunami hazard maps have been updated for four Bay Area counties. Skip to ... See the epicenter for the latest California earthquakes. The hazard areas were based from 2009 Tsunami Inundation ...

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 California Geological Survey and the Governor’s Office of Emergency Services released an update to the state’s tsunami hazard area map, with the latest changes concentrated on seven ...