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List reveals 3,400 San Francisco buildings may face earthquake risk
NBC News via Yahoo News· 1 year agoA draft list of San Francisco concrete buildings reveals properties that the city says could be...
Our guide to exploring San Francisco on a budget
Out Traveler via Yahoo News· 2 months agoImage by Shutterstock San Francisco at night framed beyond the Bay Bridge Like many big cities, San Francisco has endured its share of hardship over the...
Morocco earthquake is a warning for California: Weak brick buildings can become deathtraps
LA Times via Yahoo News· 9 months agoPeople walk amid the wreckage in the town of Imi N'tala. (Mosa'ab Elshamy / Associated Press) The...
Supershear earthquakes are super powerful, and a lot less rare than previously thought
LA Times via Yahoo News· 2 years agoNew research finds that violent supershear earthquakes are more common than previously believed,...
How strong is a 4.8 earthquake? Quake magnitudes explained.
USA TODAY via Yahoo News· 2 months agoThe 4.8 magnitude earthquake that struck New Jersey on Friday generated shaking that could be felt...
California hasn't seen a catastrophic earthquake recently. But 'quiet' period won't last
LA Times via Yahoo News· 1 year agoThe San Andreas fault is capable of magnitude 7.8 earthquakes. Two have occurred twice in recent...
Everything We Know About the Deadly Earthquakes in Turkey and Syria
Time via Yahoo News· 1 year agoRescue workers search for survivors in the rubble of a collapsed building in the town of Jableh in...
Cruelest week in history: 13 tragedies (earthquake, Titanic, Columbine) happened around April 20
Florida Today via Yahoo News· 1 year ago"It's been a week." You've heard that before, right? For some reason, the week of April 15-21 has...
Century-old postcards capture the early years of San Francisco's Chinatown
Business Insider via Yahoo News· 5 months agoIn the face of anti-immigration laws and a devastating earthquake, Chinese immigrants built an...
A Section of the San Andreas Fault Is Waking Up
Popular Mechanics via AOL· 2 months agoA Section of the San Andreas Fault Is Waking UpLloyd Cluff - Getty Images Earthquakes are notoriously hard to predict, but one consistent earthquake in...