Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. People watch smoke billowing from fires after a severe earthquake hit San Francisco April 18, 1906. Can L.A. learn any lessons ...

The Multidisciplinary Center for Earthquake Engineering Research (MCEER) Information Service is commemorating the 100th anniversary of the devastating 1906 earthquake with a major exhibit, "A City in ...

A fire erased 200,000 library books in 1906, but one soot-marked survivor has returned after 119 years with a mystery still ...

At 5 a.m. on April 18, 1906, San Franciscans were jolted out of their beds by the first tremors of an earthquake whose vibrations would be felt as far away as England. The massive quake brought down ...

A fresh Bay Area earthquake has put San Francisco back on edge, but the city has lived through something far worse. In 1906, a massive quake struck just before dawn, tearing apart buildings, rupturing ...

More than a century after it vanished in one of the most devastating disasters in American history, a single library book has found its way home. The soot-stained copy of Echoes of the Foot-Hills, ...

No better way to put it. Here we are, with nature and circumstance teamed up for a natural disaster that has left Los Angeles sagging, flattened like an old party balloon, the breath sucker-punched ...