Explore the history and development of San Francisco, covering key topics such as: - Spanish Occupation - The First Survey and a New Survey of the land - The impact of the Gold Rush - Land-making proc ...

If a 7.9 magnitude earthquake struck in the same place on the San Andreas Fault today, the alert system would send warnings ...

Jane Cryan walked into a leasing agency on Geary Boulevard in San Francisco just before closing one evening in 1982. She was looking for an apartment that could accommodate her grand piano. The flat ...

One hundred years ago, a 7.8-magnitude quake and rapidly spreading fires dealt San Francisco a stunning blow. Those events are remembered through... Remembering the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake ...

When the Great Earthquake hit San Francisco in 1906, 3-month-old William Del Monte's family fled the city on a horse-drawn cart. Del Monte was the last known survivor of the 7.8-magnitude quake and ...

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 ...