SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- At approximately 10:17 a.m. Thursday, thousands of people around the state took part in the annual Great Shakeout. The event happens the third Thursday of every October and is a ...

ASSOCIATED PRESS A group of people stand in the South of Market street, Wednesday, Nov. 1, 1989 in San Francisco, where five people died under a torrent of bricks when the 15-second quake two weeks ...

SAN FRANCISCO -- The Great California ShakeOut takes place the same week as the anniversary of the Loma Prieta earthquake, serving as a reminder for Bay Area residents to be prepared before another ...

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This week, the U.S. Geological Survey and the nation commemorate the 30 th anniversary of one of the most destructive earthquake disasters in U.S. history – the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake in northern ...

The 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake was a wakeup call to the Central Coast and San Francisco Bay Area, which had gone decades without a major earthquake. In the 20 years since then, increasingly ...

When some 10.4 million Californians “drop, cover and hold on” Thursday morning, the ground may not be shaking. But the drill will help ensure that participants are prepared for the next big earthquake ...

SANTA CRUZ, Calif. — At 5:04 p.m. on Tuesday, Oct. 17, 1989, a magnitude-6.9 earthquake with an epicenter in the forests above Aptos abruptly ended Central California's long seismic slumber. The ...

The antennas atop Loma Prieta’s peak, top, rise into the sky as cows graze, at bottom, in Scotts Valley in this view from Scotts Valley High School. Loma Prieta is the highest point in the Santa Cruz ...