An enduring and endearing San Francisco annual tradition returns early Friday as officials and others, many in period costume ...

The faithful guardians of San Francisco’s yesterdays will gather before dawn Friday to celebrate a disaster that almost killed the city. The gathering at Geary, Kearny and Market streets at 5:13 a.m.

While not a household name like the San Andreas, the Elsinore fault is part of a larger seismic zone that experts fear and ...

At 5:12am on Wednesday, April 18, 1906, a portion of the seam between the two tectonic plates San Francisco rests on suddenly ruptured. The earth shook for 45 seconds, and the ensuing fire raged on ...

San Francisco - Earthquake & fire, 1906 "Ruins on Kearney St. near Post Office". Library of Congress. At 5:12 am on April 18, 1906, San Francisco residents were awakened by a 40-second tremor that ...

When the great San Francisco earthquake destroyed much of San Francisco and the city’s medical facilities in April 1906, more than 40,000 people took shelter and sought treatment in a tent city in ...

The Northeast San Francisco Conservancy filed the application ... The application lists hundreds of houses built in the wake of the 1906 earthquake and fire – commercial buildings like the ...