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.

An instrument called an interrogator allows researchers to effectively hijack fiber optic cables for use as thousands of ...

The latest official maps of California’s earthquake faults and general geology are digital for the first time and can be viewed on the Internet with a Google map interface. It’s no surprise ...

The last significant damaging earthquake in the Bay Area was the 6.0 South Napa Quake on Aug. 24, 2014, which killed 1 person ...

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 ...

A new study shines a light on a system of earthquake faults in the San Francisco Bay Area that most residents don’t even know exists. The Foothill Thrust Belt faults are deep under Silicon ...