While earthquakes have caused disasters since early California, destruction from wildfires is a modern phenomenon ...

The fervor over San Francisco’s glorious new baseball park was cresting. It didn’t matter that the first game was delayed several weeks by a tough winter. When Opening Day at Ewing Field came on May ...

It wouldn’t take much, the fan explained, just some radioactive material inside the players, who would then undergo a ...

In the era when American cities regularly caught fire, the widespread destruction seeded what looks, in retrospect, like ...

The magnitude 5.8 earthquake that shook San Francisco town in Southern Leyte generated over 160 aftershocks as of Friday morning, January 24, according to Phivolcs.

Is urban San Francisco out of the woods in terms of fire insurance problems caused in Los Angeles? Here's what San Francisco ...

A 5.9 magnitude earthquake struck near San Francisco, Leyte in the Philippines, causing potential damage and aftershocks. The seismic event, recorded at a depth of 10 km, was reported as brief but ...

A 5.9 magnitude earthquake struck off the central Philippines near San Francisco in Leyte province. The tremor had a depth of ...

And, I remember  larger earthquakes in California when I would find my mother running from room to room taking "roll call" to see if all the members in her family were protected.  Earthquakes happen ...

Los Angeles took over as California's top city after San Francisco's 1906 earthquake and fires. What lessons can L.A. learn ...

"The greatest loss in the city of San Francisco was principally the result of the fire, which was rendered uncontrollable ...

These six American fires led to change: political, legislative and geographic. Those tragedies helped shape the evolving ...