San Francisco is weighing what to do with a giant public fountain artwork by artist Armand Vaillancourt as it plans a park ...

Research on one of the world's largest earthquake simulators has made buildings, bridges, and other infrastructure more ...

They had no bathroom, no kitchen, and no foundation ... met the Earthquake Cottages. Small clusters of NowHouses with modest support buildings could retain the community bonds already established in ...

On a Wednesday in late September, Amparo Vigil showed a contractor around the modest, three-story building she owns in San Francisco ... better prepare them for earthquakes.

Since the 1989 earthquake, San Francisco has invested more than $20 billion in seismically retrofitting City-owned infrastructure and buildings and implemented ... The Department is also committed to ...

Earthquakes pose considerable risks to livelihoods and the environment, and have a higher mortality rate than other types of natural hazards, with most fatalities occurring due to building collapse ..

including a new program to address seismically deficient concrete buildings across San Francisco. "In San Francisco, we are always working and planning to protect this City and our residents from the ...

San Francisco ... was an open building, and we didn't have to redo the foundation," says Devon Johnson, a building owner who underwent the retrofitting process. During a serious earthquake ...

But the old creek bed is there, under the foundations of ... 7 feet and drops down 5. Some buildings withstand the shift; many do not. The earthquake exposes San Francisco’s history of corrupt ...