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One of the seminal Bay Area bands of the ’60s and ’70s is set to release a previously unearthed live album recorded in 1967.
SAN FRANCISCO – In the classic film “The Birds,’’ flocks of crows and other species suddenly and viciously attack people for no apparent reason. Now another Bay Area-based mystery has ...
The San Andreas Fault, spanning California’s coast, marks the boundary between the Pacific and North American tectonic plates. Known for major earthquakes like the 1906 San Francisco quake ...
A 2003 earthquake in Paso Robles toppled buildings, resulting in two deaths. Most of California’s unreinforced brick buildings have been strengthened since then, but older apartments with ground ...
SAN JOSE, Calif. — California has dozens of earthquakes every day. Most are below 3.0 magnitude, so small that they aren’t felt. But a few, like the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, are massive ...
But a few, like the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, are massive, capable of widespread destruction. The last significant damaging earthquake in the Bay Area was the 6.0 South Napa Quake on Aug. 24 ...
Most are below 3.0 magnitude, so small that they aren’t felt. But a few, like the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, are massive, capable of widespread destruction. The last significant damaging ...
SAN JOSE, Calif ... that stays in place and can be present after that earthquake?" Ojala said. In recent years, Ojala said San Francisco has gone through a program of mandatory soft story ...
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Frederick Eugene Ives / National Museum of American History, SI Many photographers documented the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and its aftermath. Yet more than a century would pass before the ...