In the next 30 years, there is a 72% probability of a 6.7 magnitude earthquake striking the Bay Area, according to U.S. Geological Survey official Sarah Minson. A 3.9 magnitude earthquake strikes ...

A minor 3.4 magnitude earthquake struck the Bay Area on Sunday night, June 8, 2025, with its epicenter near Pinole. Residents across San Francisco, Oakland, and surrounding areas felt the brief jolt.

Earthquakes happen along several fault lines in the Bay Area. The most infamous of these, the San Andreas fault line, runs through the San Francisco peninsula and was responsible for an estimated ...

A 7.3 magnitude earthquake has triggered a tsunami advisory along a 700-mile stretch of Alaska’s sparsely populated southern ...

A magnitude-3.4 earthquake struck the East Bay on Sunday night, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The 9:30 p.m. quake's epicenter was 1.1 miles northwest of Pinole, in San Pablo Bay, at a ...

A late-night 2.9-magnitude earthquake shook the San Francisco Bay Area in California, the U.S. Geological Survey reported. The six-mile deep quake hit three miles from Fairview, which is about a ...

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory could ‘revolutionize’ earthquake monitoring and provide researchers the ability to find hidden faults and looming threats in Bay Area cities.