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

San Francisco has released new data that shows 24 city-owned buildings are at risk of collapsing from an earthquake. Even ...

The inspection department must then develop new seismic retrofit standards for the city’s building code. After the 6.9 magnitude Loma Prieta earthquake in 1989, San Francisco passed an ordinance ...

Unpublished list reveals 3,400 San Francisco buildings may be at severe earthquake risk. A draft list of San Francisco concrete buildings reveals properties that the city says could be vulnerable ...

City Hall is reflected in the windows of 155 Grove St., A reflection of city hall on the windows of 155 Grove Street in San Francisco, Calif., on Tuesday, October 21, 2014.

Owners will also be encouraged to retrofit as many as 4,000 buildings to guard against earthquake damage. Landlords across San Francisco must soon foot the bill to make sure their 4,000 buildings ...

A retrofit of the leaning Millennium Tower of San Francisco has been suspended after crews discovered the building was sinking at a faster rate during the construction effort. The nearly $100 ...

In 2013, San Francisco passed a landmark law requiring owners to retrofit vulnerable wooden apartment buildings but allowed the costs to be passed on to renters — even those protected by rent ...

San Francisco has sued the local plumbers union, claiming the union broke city and state laws by refusing to retrofit the Civic Center Hotel to withstand earthquakes and ensure it's not a fire ...