San Franciscans were jolted by a 3.6 magnitude earthquake that struck just after 7 a.m. Friday at what may have been exact same location of San Francisco’s infamous 1906 earthquake. A 2.9 ...

Photo courtesy Palo Alto Historical Association. The devastation to San Francisco caused by the 1906 earthquake that struck the region on April 18 has been well-documented over the past 118 years.

That striking entrance, and its wide, grand staircase, is what attracted Stanford to the home in the first place.

After 1906, Los Angeles merchants “took advantage ... In 1905, scant months before the earthquake, San Francisco had been presented with the Burnham Plan, a park-centric model for an ideal ...

Any student of California history knows the story of the 1906 earthquake. San Francisco was torn apart by the quake itself, ...

1906. The next day, three San Francisco newspapers -- the Call, the Chronicle and the Examiner -- published a joint edition. Its front page carried this top headline: "Earthquake and Fire ...

Sure, San Francisco neighborhoods have plenty of fire hydrants, but as we learned in Southern California, hydrants can run dry. It happened to us during the 1906 earthquake. It's been a constant ...