A video of Taiwan commuters stopped on a bridge swaying after an earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 7.4 on Wednesday is going viral on social media — and it’s unsettling to watch. The ...

The Loma Prieta earthquake, measuring 6.9 on the Richter scale, hit the San Francisco Bay Area on Oct. 17, 1989, at 5:04 p.m. local time during Game 3 of the World Series between the Oakland ...

An engineer Tuesday assured California that the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge won’t fail in a major earthquake, despite weak spots in welded steel that holds together the eastern span’s only ...

Before that, it was the 6.9 magnitude Loma Prieta Earthquake on Oct. 17, 1989, which disrupted the World Series, and wrecked the Bay Bridge, Oakland’s Cypress Freeway, downtown Santa Cruz, and ...

SAN FRANCISCO — When traffic flows across the new stretch of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge for the first time this week, it will do so nearly a quarter-century after a deadly earthquake ...

The Loma Prieta Earthquake struck the San Francisco Bay Area on Oct. 17, 1989, killing 63 people and injuring thousands. Here's a look back 33 years later.

On Oct. 17 35 years ago, a 6.9-magnitude quake tore through the Bay Area, killing 63 people and injuring over 3,700. The big picture: The Loma Prieta earthquake was centered in Santa Cruz County ...

All of the major spans across San Francisco Bay, including the Bay Bridge and the Golden Gate Bridge, have concrete buffers called fenders that surround the supports.

At 10:15 Monday night, the new eastern span of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge opened to traffic, about seven hours ahead of schedule and $5 billion over budget. The $6.4 billion, self ...