Earthquakes are also not unknown. Winters holds its Earthquake Festival as a reminder each August, for example.

BOULDER CREEK, Calif. — An earthquake of magnitude 4.6 in Northern California awakened residents with a jolt early Thursday, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Dozens of small earthquakes have shaken the San Francisco Bay Area over the last month, rattling nerves and raising fears that ...

For residents of the San Francisco Bay Area, 2026 got off to a shaky start in the most literal sense imaginable. On the morning of February 2, between 6:27 and 8:00 local time, a series of no fewer ...

A magnitude 4.6 earthquake centered in Santa Cruz County rattled Northern California early Thursday morning, waking people up as far away as San Francisco.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A series of earthquakes rocked a Bay Area city on Feb. 2. Did you feel it? San Ramon was hit by a cluster of quakes starting with ...

SAN FRANCISCO -- The start of Super Bowl week came with an unexpected surprise on Monday morning when an earthquake hit the Bay Area. The 4.2-magnitude quake had an epicenter just south of San Ramon, ...

The San Francisco Fire Department’s Station 2, rebuilt in 1994, is much younger than some other buildings in the 1300 block of Powell Street in Chinatown. But city experts have deemed the structure to ...

Ruth Newman, one of only two known remaining survivors of the Great San Francisco Earthquake of 1906 that shook the city and the surrounding area, has died. She was 113. Family members say Newman ...