A light, 4.0-magnitude earthquake struck in the San Francisco Bay Area on Thursday, according to the United States Geological ...

Getty Images/iStockphoto A 3.1-magnitude earthquake shook the San Francisco Bay Area in California, the U.S. Geological ...

What's clear from the study is that while California's next "Big One" may share some characteristics of previously documented ...

U.S. Geological Survey scientists highlight places in San Francisco, South Bay and East Bay that experienced more shaking ...

The National Weather Service on Wednesday morning canceled a tsunami advisory for the Bay Area and Central Coast, but it remains in effect for other portions of the California coastline.

A magnitude 8.8 monster off the eastern coast of Russia threatened tens of millions of people with a tsunami risk. So why did ...

Was that an earthquake you just felt or merely a big truck rumbling by? You don't have to wonder thanks to the U.S. Geological Survey.

Tsunami waves are expected to begin striking the West Coast overnight, with potential landfall times released by the Tsunami Warning Center.

After the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake, which measured 6.9 on the Richter scale, several of the residential buildings in San Francisco's Marina neighborhood "pancaked" or fell onto the bottom floor.

Commuters in the Bay Area should expect a delay this morning between 11 a.m. and 11:15 a.m. PT as San Francisco-area trains will slow to 27 miles per hour for a system-wide test of an earthquake ...