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

Over three decades after the powerful Loma Prieta earthquake struck, some experts maintain that the strongest quake to hit the Bay Area since 1906 could have been much more destructive.

After Loma Prieta, San Francisco launched a 10-year-long study, called the Community Action Plan for Seismic Safety (CAPSS), to evaluate the city’s risk from earthquakes.

Without Loma Prieta, in other words, much of northeast San Francisco would remain girdled by concrete. There wouldn’t be the ability to add new layers to existing neighborhoods.

30 years ago when Loma Prieta hit, Shannon and his team were dispatched to the Marina District and found themselves outside the collapsed building at Divisadero and Beach streets.

Loma Prieta spent the summer touring with reunited screamo vets Jeromes Dream, who were supporting a new album, but Loma Prieta haven’t had any new music themselves since 2015’s great Self ...

Front page of the San Francisco Examiner, Oct. 18,1989. Like just about everyone else, we grossly overstated the Loma Prieta death toll. By comparison with all that, the challenges of putting out a ...

Loma Prieta isn't the worst-case scenario for San Francisco. That's because the earthquake was less powerful than the 1906 temblor, and was centered far from urban areas.

The Loma Prieta quake in Oct. 1989 left 16,000 homes uninhabitable, knocked out a section of the Bay Bridge and caused the collapse of a double decker freeway in Oakland.

The Loma Prieta earthquake, a 6.9 temblor that struck the Bay Area on October 17, 1989, at 5:04 p.m., killed 63 people, injured almost 3,800, and caused up to $10 billion in damage.

Loma Prieta 30 years later: Santa Cruz rises from the rubble to become a model of earthquake preparedness Ruined cities don’t stay wastelands forever – and, with planning, emerge stronger ...