Zoom in on the map below and compare where you live to the significant faults and where strong earthquakes have struck in the Bay Area.

California has dozens of earthquakes every day. Most are below 3.0 magnitude, so small that they aren’t felt.

The map shows the major seismic faults in the San Francisco Bay Area (colored lines) and the epicenters of the recorded earthquakes of magnitude 5 or greater that have occurred since 1900 ...

A preliminary magnitude 3.2 earthquake shook the Concord area shortly after noon on Friday, according to the United States ...

A series of small earthquakes shook the ... The quakes happened on the Hayward Fault, one of a handful of major faults that cut through the San Francisco Bay Area. It may be a little less famous ...

a branch of the San Andreas Fault system, Dr. Baltay said. It was the strongest earthquake in the Bay Area since a 6-magnitude earthquake in 2014, said Lucy Jones, a geophysics researcher at the ...

The last notable quake was a 6.0 magnitude earthquake that struck near Napa in 2014. Jones told KNTV-TV the quake happened on the Calaveras Fault, one of eight major faults in the Bay Area and a ...

Still, the USGS cautions, “we live in earthquake country and we should all be prepared for the next big quake.” The Bay Area’s major fault lines (Image courtesy USGS) Which Bay Area fault ...