Editor's Note: The Scanner publishes guest essays from community members on issues of concern. Today's piece was written by Berkeley historian and author Richard Schwartz, who will be speaking about ...

CONTRA COSTA COUNTY, CA - Friday morning, a 2.9 magnitude quake was detected near San Ramon, according to the U.S. Geological ...

Dozens of small earthquakes have shaken the San Francisco Bay Area over the last month, rattling nerves and raising fears that more seismic events may be on the horizon. The clusters of earthquakes — ...

A magnitude 4.3 earthquake with its epicenter centered near Berkeley shook the entire Bay Area, according to U.S Geological Survey. It was the largest seismic event in the area since 2007. The ...

California has dozens of earthquakes every day. Most are below 3.0 magnitude, so small that they aren’t felt. But a few, like the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, are massive, capable of widespread ...

A moderate earthquake measuring 3.2 on the Richter scale shook parts of the East Bay Sunday morning, creating a gentle reminder of California’s seismic activity as residents across multiple ...

BERKELEY HILLS, Calif. -- Two moderate earthquakes rocked the Bay Area in the last 24 hours. The first one hit around 10:30 p.m. Monday near the Pleasant Hill-Walnut Creek border. There have been at ...