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

After the Great Quake, Cadenasso took in California’s first Poet Laureate, Ina Coolbrith (for whom Ina Coolbrith Park in ...

A group looks to "repair harms" of ’60s urban renewal that displaced minority communities in the Fillmore and Western ...

Earthquakes can strike with little warning, but they are far more likely to occur in certain parts of the world where ...

OPINION- There was an earthquake (magnitude 3.7-3.8) recently that jolted my house. A big jolt, just big enough to let me know that I’m still deadly afraid of them. I waited all afternoon for an ...

Few transportation systems in the world are as instantly recognizable as the cable cars of San Francisco. Climbing steep ...

Very little clean-up,” a lodgekeeper said of the early-morning shaker everyone was talking about Thursday. “Everything is ...

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

A 4.6-magnitude quake struck near Boulder Creek, Calif., early Thursday. But there appeared to be minimal damage.

A 4.6-magnitude earthquake centered in Boulder Creek rattled the Central Coast at 1:41am Thursday morning, with tremors felt ...

A magnitude ​5 earthquake ‌struck the ​Brookdale ​region in California ⁠on ​Thursday, ​the USGS said. The area is prone to ...