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Near-shore tsunamis, those triggered by earthquakes just off the coast, could pose a particularly dire risk for California’s ...
City of Pinole hit by an earthquake at the same time as anti-immigration raids protests were taking place in downtown San ...
A near-certain disaster looms for California, but there are real things people can do to prepare. Here's what to know about ...
There’s no uniform rule for when and how government agencies should share earthquake risks with building owners and tenants. San Francisco has a searchable online map of 4,900 wood-frame ...
More than 3,000 concrete buildings in San Francisco could be at high risk of collapse in the event of a major earthquake, according to a preliminary draft put together by the city government and ...
SAN FRANCISCO – An earthquake shook parts of the San Francisco Bay Area early Monday morning. According to the U.S.
The state will almost certainly face a magnitude 6.7 or larger earthquake within the next three decades, the USGS concludes. Some of the most at-risk locations are San Francisco and Los Angeles.
It was along this fault zone where the state’s most powerful recorded quake and perhaps the most significant earthquake of all time, the Great 1906 San Francisco ... the highest risk of seismic ...
For years, cities across California have been diligently working on retrofitting earthquake ... San Francisco are still lagging in these critical retrofits, putting lives and properties at risk.
A Liberty Mutual spokesperson told The San Francisco Standard last year that due to the Bay Area's "significant earthquake risk and the resulting home fires they cause, and our high concentration ...
Engineers who specialize in earthquake risks are increasingly nervous, following recent building collapses in the U.S. and Turkey. The Fairmont Hotel in San Francisco. (Diane Bentley Raymond ...