The 1906 earthquake released the equivalent of 15 million tons of TNT or several hundred times the energy released by the atomic bomb that destroyed Hiroshima, said Mary Lou Zoback, a senior ...

Almost a century after the 1906 earthquake, Stanford geophysicists have revisited San Francisco's ''Big One'' and now paint a new picture of a fault that was ready to go and that ruptured farther ...

The San Francisco earthquake of 1906 is the deadliest earthquake in the history of the United States, and remains high on the ...

This Sept. 23, 2001 photo shows Ruth Newman celebrating her 100th birthday. Newman, who survived San Francisco's 1906 earthquake, died in July 2015 at the age of 113.

1906 earthquake contact prints taken by Arnold Genthe at Palace of the Legion of Honor in San Francisco Calif., on Tuesday, April 7, 2015. Scott Strazzante/The Chronicle.

On April 18, 1906, the mighty San Andreas Fault -- which slices along 800 miles of coastal California -- slipped, creating a magnitude 7.8 earthquake, one of the strongest ever recorded in the ...

The devastation to San Francisco caused by the 1906 earthquake that struck the region on April 18 has been well-documented over the past 118 years. The 7.9-magnitude quake caused over 3,000 deaths ...

San Franciscans were jolted by a 3.6 magnitude earthquake that struck just after 7 a.m. Friday at what may have been exact same location of San Francisco’s infamous 1906 earthquake. A 2.9 ...

San Francisco from the ferry boat April 27, 1906. Chiura Obata-©-Asian-Art Museum, San Francisco. People resting in the Presidio after the 1906 earthquake, Late April, 1906. by Chiura Obata (American, ...

There is, of course, the mighty San Andreas, whose massive slip caused the great 1906 San Francisco earthquake and whose notoriety has sparked multiple movies, video games, ...