EXTENSION: Research how the federal government responded to the April 1906 San Francisco earthquake and detail what precedents this set for future government responses to natural disasters.

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

Experts claim that the next big US quake will also occur along the San Andreas fault, where many of the biggest earthquakes in U.S. history have been recorded. In fact, the United States Geological ...

The exhibition displays 24 images from the Burden Archive and a section devoted to the Japanese experience of urban renewal.

In the heart of California, the San Andreas Fault lies like a ticking time bomb, silently building pressure for over a century. Stretching more than 1,200 kilometers, this massive fault marks the ...

Last month, the Forsyth Fire took out 13 homes in the area, but people here tell me that Pine Valley is rising from the ashes.

In California, where the next “Big One” is an always-looming threat, some lessons learned from the 1925 Santa Barbara quake resonate even 100 years later, experts say.

With a declining population, tariffs and some legacy businesses closing, San Francisco's Chinatown has a new plan to survive.

In California, where the next "Big One" is an always-looming threat, some lessons learned from the 1925 Santa Barbara quake resonate even 100 years later, experts say.

The architect behind Hearst’s San Simeon and many other buildings in California defied the 20th-century image of the tortured ...

As the United States chase an end to a decade long wait for a Wimbledon singles champion, it hasn’t always been that way. It ...