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.

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

In California, where the next "Big One" is an always-looming threat, some lessons learned from the 1925 Santa Barbara quake resonate even 100 years later, experts say.

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.

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 ...

Amid all the destruction as the 1906 earthquake decimated San Francisco, a Jackson Square whiskey distributor saved his entire stock of the previous liquor. The disaster decimated The City 119 ...