Alaska was jolted by a 7.3-magnitude earthquake on Wednesday afternoon. Tsunami information was not immediately available.

San Francisco has assigned a seismic hazard score to hundreds of city-owned buildings. Some key ones, including a jury duty site, might fare badly in a big quake.

Experts claim that the next big US quake will also occur along the San Andreas fault, where many of the biggest earthquakes in U.S. history have been recorded. In fact, the United States Geological ...

Along San Francisco's Embarcadero, a groundbreaking experiment is revealing promising results. At the aging seawall, during low tide, a diver with the Port of San Francisco carefully removed nine ...

A tsunami warning is in effect along parts of Alaska’s lightly populated southern coast after a 7.3 magnitude earthquake.

EXTENSION: Research how the federal government responded to the April 1906 San Francisco earthquake and detail what precedents this set for future government responses to natural disasters.

A 7.3 magnitude earthquake off Alaska’s southern coast has triggered a tsunami warning for a 700-mile stretch from southwest of Homer to Unimak Pass.

It is a new day, San Francisco. Literally and figuratively, according to Mayor Daniel Lurie’s 5 a.m. remarks at the 119th commemoration of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. “We’ve gone through some ...

San Francisco has released new data that shows 24 city-owned buildings are at risk of collapsing from an earthquake. Even more are prone to serious damage according to ...

Salonen ends his troubled relationship with the San Francisco Symphony with Mahler's ferocious Second Symphony, leaving the audience roaring and musicians pounding their feet in praise.

California's San Andreas Fault is capable of triggering a massive earthquake. Here's what to know about this famous location often associated with earthquakes.