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

The nonprofit owner of the historic Doolan-Larson Building will seek proposals to transform it into a commercial and cultural ...

The year was 1925. The new “skyscraper” getting all the buzz was the planned Bank of Italy tower, which became an enduring ...

In California, where the next "Big One" is an always-looming threat, some lessons learned from the 1925 Santa Barbara quake ...

In California, where the next "Big One" is an always-looming threat, some lessons learned from the 1925 Santa Barbara quake ...

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory could ‘revolutionize’ earthquake monitoring and provide researchers the ability to find hidden faults and looming threats in Bay Area cities.

The application lists hundreds of houses built in the wake of the 1906 earthquake and fire – commercial buildings like the iconic City Lights Bookstore and even the 1962 Columbus Savings and ...

Los Angeles took over as California's top city after San Francisco's 1906 earthquake and fires. What lessons can L.A. learn from this latest disaster?

The scale of the damage in Los Angeles’ latest catastrophe is just as stark: Nearly 40,000 acres burned flat and more than 12,000 structures, including many homes, damaged or destroyed. My old friend ...