The city hopes to obtain federal funding to build out a more robust low-cost financing program for soft story buildings in ...

ASSOCIATED PRESS A group of people stand in the South of Market street, Wednesday, Nov. 1, 1989 in San Francisco, where five people died under a torrent of bricks when the 15-second quake two weeks ...

Seldom have 15 seconds wrought so much for so many. By the time the 6.9-magnitude shaking ended at 5:04 p.m. on Oct. 17, 1989, the Loma Prieta earthquake had transformed the lives of thousands of ...

The 36th Anniversary of the deadly Loma Prieta earthquake prompted public awareness messages about earthquake preparedness. It also came as the U.S. Government shutdown has led to furloughs of ...

Then the Loma Prieta earthquake hit. The magnitude 6.9 temblor, named for the peak near the quake's epicenter in the Santa Cruz Mountains, lasted 15 seconds. It killed 12 people in San Francisco, ...

SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- As we approach the 36th anniversary of the devastating 6.9-magnitude Loma Prieta earthquake, you may be wondering, how safe is San Francisco? The city has an ongoing campaign to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Frank Blackburn in 1995 in the machine shop of his company, Portable Water Supply Systems Co., which he founded after retiring ...