In the days following the quake, the 20-year-old Chiura Obata, who had only been in the country for three years, grabbed his ...

A street-level view of earthquake damage in San Francisco near City Hall. Frederick Eugene Ives / National Museum of American History, SI Rooftop-view of earthquake damage in San Francisco from ...

A traveling exhibit at the Palace of Fine Arts has an immense “ball pit” with balloons, and other curious art.

Of course, Schenectady sustained no physical damage in the disaster. Recall, however, the so-called “butterfly effect” — the ...

whose massive slip caused the great 1906 San Francisco earthquake and whose notoriety has sparked multiple movies, video games, books, T-shirts and collectibles. Also well known in L.A. is the ...

A ceremony was held in downtown San Francisco early Friday morning to mark 119 years since much of the city was destroyed from the 1906 earthquake and fire that followed. In a ceremony that began ...

“Arts and culture are what drives San Francisco, always has always will, and the SFFILM festival is a part of our fabric,” Lurie said. Prediction of ‘major earthquake’ on anniversary of ...

according to Mayor Daniel Lurie’s 5 a.m. remarks at the 119th commemoration of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. “We’ve gone through some tough times recently,“ Lurie told a crowd of first responders ...