Having experienced the 1994 Northridge and 1989 Loma Prieta earthquakes, I recall most clearly the physical sensations of ground erupting beneath me and the stark...

Apparently, the hundreds (and sometimes thousands) of seals at Fisherman’s Wharf have dwindled to just a handful since Thanksgiving. According to the article, the seals magically appeared after the Loma Prieta Eartquake in 1989 and ...

Crime legend: After the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake, a car thief was found crushed to death under a collapsed freeway overpass in the vehicle he'd stolen.

In the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake, part of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge collapsed. A replacement, costing at least $6 billion, is not expected until 2013 and the bridge was closed last week when a cable snapped. Thirteen...

Twenty years after the Loma Prieta Earthquake annihilated Downtown Santa Cruz, locals gathered to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the quake, which significantly altered the future of the coastal town.

           The 20th anniversary of the Loma Prieta earthquake was also the 10th anniversary of Litquake's Lit Crawl through the Mission. Here are a few pictures from the festivities, with more here. ...

My 15 seconds of fame came in the aftermath of the October 17, 1987 Loma Prieta earthquake with an interview by weatherman Al Roker on ABC's "Sunday Morning with Maria Shriver."I had been appointed State Geologist of Utah by then ...

The 1989 Loma Prieta EarthquakeBy the time the 7.0-magnitude shaking ended at 5:04 p.m. on this day in 1989, Loma Prieta had transformed the lives of thousands of Bay Area people including me, my wife and my brother Roger. Today mar...

Like most people living in the Bay Area at the time, I can vividly recall the day the Loma Prieta Earthquake hit back in October, 1989.

On Oct. 17, 1989, the Loma Prieta earthquake brought down a chunk of the upper deck of the Oakland-Bay Bridge onto the lower deck. Anamafi Moala Kalushia, 23, of Berkeley died. Twenty years later, some...

When a disaster hits, it is too late to put your best people in charge of planning and preparation. That's not the place for soft political patronage.

It's been a long time since I posted a geology-related song (even though my collection of them has been growing steadily), but I've been waiting for just the right moment to post this one. Seeing as tomorrow is the 20th anniversary ...

It's been quite a week, this year's Earth Science Week, starting with a record-breaking storm in California, suffering cuts in the geology field studies program at our school, and the 20-year anniversary of the Loma Prieta Earthqua...

In addition to marking the 20th anniversary of the Loma Prieta quake, Saturday also marks the annual Litquake Lit Crawl, a three-phase bar crawl through the Mission featuring a great many writer types reading while others listen a...

Verizon Wireless participates in The Big Rumble and offers tips to consumers. WALNUT CREEK, CA — This year marks the 20th anniversary of the Loma Prieta earthquake. On October 17, 2009, Verizon Wireless will participate in the Bay ...

Obviously it's never a bad time to ensure you are prepared for the next big shake, but sometimes an event like the 20th anniversary of the Loma Prieta earthquake is what we need to get us to stop and

The 17 October 1989 earthquake wasn't the worst recent American earthquake—well, it was until the 1994 Northridge quake. And it wasn't the jolt that roused the Bay Area from its aura of sleepy denial—plenty of folks, including me, r...

Saturday is the 20th anniversary of the Bay Area's Loma Prieta 7.1 earthquake that killed more than 60 people, and an article in the...

Damage to the Cypress Freeway, after the upper deck pancaked onto the lower deck. As many in the local news/blog firmament will be repeating this week, Saturday marks the 20th anniversary of the Loma Prieta earthquake, which was...

October 17 marks the anniversary of the Loma Prieta earthquake — that famous 1989 one that rocked Northern California during an Oakland Athletics/San Francisco Giants game. So all this week, I'm going to try to play games with earth...