The Giant Dipper in Belmont — along with the park itself — has been through some good, and a lot of bad, times. But after a ...

Still, A Night to Remember is widely considered the best depiction of the Titanic disaster on film, boasting stark realism, ...

At 5:12 a.m. on April 18, 1906, San Francisco shook violently. A 7.9 magnitude earthquake struck just 2 miles off the coast.

More than a century after the devastating 1906 earthquake, dozens of buildings still pose serious collapse risks in a major quake.

A 3.3-magnitude earthquake hit Northern California Monday evening near Los Banos, about 30 miles from San Jose. No damage ...

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

After decades of making audiences shake with laughter, comedian Earthquake is finally getting a sitcom to call his own. Per ...

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 ...

On the 100th anniversary of the quake that changed the city forever, the clock is ticking for the next Big One.

California disasters, 1812-1899 : firsthand accounts of fires, shipwrecks, floods, epidemics, earthquakes and other California tragedies by Seacrest, William B., 1957- Publication date 2006 Topics ...