SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- On a clear, warm September day, up on the 62nd floor of Salesforce Tower, which is the highest you can go in an elevator from the ground floor of the building, the 360 degree ...

ASSOCIATED PRESS A group of people stand in the South of Market street, Wednesday, Nov. 1, 1989 in San Francisco, where five people died under a torrent of bricks when the 15-second quake two weeks ...

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Tom Brokaw getting ready to go on TV on a dark sidewalk in the Marina District, the now-iconic corner of Beach and Divisadero, entire sections of the Cypress viaduct and the Bay Bridge unhinged and ...

Seldom have 15 seconds wrought so much for so many. By the time the 6.9-magnitude shaking ended at 5:04 p.m. on Oct. 17, 1989, the Loma Prieta earthquake had transformed the lives of thousands of ...

Five people died when the Loma Prieta earthquake shook the bricks right off one building on San Francisco's Bluxome Street. Town after town saw buildings crumble in the quake. "It started raining ...

THANK YOU FOR JOINING US. I'M LAUREN SEAVER. AND I'M PAUL DUDLEY... WE ARE BEGINNING WITH A 4-POINT-6 EARTHQUAKE THAT HIT NEAR BOULDER CREEK AROUND 1:40 THIS MORNING... SOME PEOPLE IN SANTA CRUZ ...

California has dozens of earthquakes every day. Most are below 3.0 magnitude, so small that they aren’t felt. But a few, like the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, are massive, capable of widespread ...