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

San Francisco has assigned a seismic hazard score to hundreds of city-owned buildings. Some key ones, including a jury duty ...

In California, where the next "Big One" is an always-looming threat, some lessons learned from the 1925 Santa Barbara quake ...

Flower Songs & Flor y Canto," June 28, 1 - 4 p.m., at Boronda Adobe History Center in Salinas. Admission free.

The church earned basilica status after a five-year restoration project sharpened its beauty and made it earthquake-safe.

The UC San Diego shake table, located on an industrial lot off Pomerado Road, is the only outdoor facility of its kind in the ...

A 10-story building made from cold-formed steel held up to a generated earthquake by the earthquake shake table at UC San ...

Researchers at UC San Diego on Friday put a 10-story, cold-formed steel building to the test, simulating how the structure would move in the midst of a major earthquake.

A near-certain disaster looms for California, ... Then there was the Loma Prieta earthquake that rocked the San Francisco Bay Area in 1989, killing 63 people and injuring nearly 3,800 others.

Then there was the Loma Prieta earthquake that rocked the San Francisco Bay Area in 1989, ... California. A 7.1 magnitude earthquake rattled the city two days after an initial 6.4 magnitude quake.

Then there was the Loma Prieta earthquake that rocked the San Francisco Bay Area in 1989, ... California. A 7.1 magnitude earthquake rattled the city two days after an initial 6.4 magnitude quake.

Researchers program the table to move in ways that recreate actual ground motions that have occurred during past earthquakes such as the 6.7 Northridge earthquake which struck Los Angeles in 1994 and ...