A major Hayward fault quake could shake some Bay Area communities harder than expected because of the ground beneath them, ...

Few geological features define a place quite like the San Andreas Fault defines California. It runs through the state like a ...

The Rose Canyon Fault, and other local faults, are “all over San Diego, but we really don’t have effective mapping of them,” a local professor said. Times of San Diego takes a look at what the experts ...

A magnitude 4.9 earthquake occurred at 5:56 p.m. Monday about 17 miles northeast of Palm Desert in Riverside County, producing shaking that was felt throughout San Diego County, the U.S. Geological ...

San Franciscans love to gather at Dolores Park to watch the skyline glow at sunset. The hard edges of the Transamerica Pyramid catch the light. Then the San Francisco Marriott Marquis, with its Art ...

120 years ago on April 18, 1906, the San Francisco earthquake (and subsequent fires) ranks as one of the most significant temblors of all time. At 5:12 a.m., a foreshock occurred with enough force to ...

BOULDER CREEK — The quake that shook residents awake early Thursday from Fairfield to Soledad and east to Lodi proved to be a “great test” of the state’s earthquake-warning alert system, even though ...

There are two kinds of people who don’t hang pictures on their walls: minimalists, and people who live directly above a fault line. Alex Cully is the latter. From 2016 to 2017, Cully rented an ...

For residents of the San Francisco Bay Area, 2026 got off to a shaky start in the most literal sense imaginable. On the morning of February 2, between 6:27 and 8:00 local time, a series of no fewer ...

Following recent tremors, Coachella Valley residents are asking what “The Big One” might actually feel like. This timeline explores how a catastrophic quake could isolate our community. Might go ...