San Francisco has assigned a seismic hazard score to hundreds of city-owned buildings. Some key ones, including a jury duty ...

One hundred years ago today, downtown Santa Barbara was devastated by an earthquake centered just offshore. The main commercial district, State Street, was in ruins. Some buildings completely ...

Each of these iconic photos of American history tells a story, from heartbreak to joy and everything in between.

On April 18, 1906, a sound similar to ‘the roar of 10,000 lions’ filled the air as the ground shook in San Francisco, California. A powerful 8.0 magnitude earthquake struck the city and triggered a ...

A street-level view of earthquake damage in San Francisco near City Hall. Frederick Eugene Ives / National Museum of American History, SI Rooftop-view of earthquake damage in San Francisco from ...

San Francisco recorded another powerful earthquake Thursday, adding to an already decent history of similarly strong quakes in the area.

A major earthquake occurred in 1906 in Northern California, due to shifting of this massive fault line, causing widespread damage and fires in San Fransisco.

Meanwhile, in San Francisco, despite the destruction, the Review noted that "if the earthquake destroyed church property it by no means destroyed the faith." Mass was held out of doors wherever there ...

It was there that she rode out the 1906 earthquake. Left: Emilie’s son Edgar A. Cohen (1859-1939), a professional photographer, traveled to San Francisco to take these photos of the earthquake damage, ...