An earthquake hits the San Francisco Bay Area on October 17, 1989, killing 67 people and causing more than $5 billion in damages. Though this was one of the most powerful and destructive earthquakes ...

October 17 marks the 33-year anniversary of the Loma Prieta earthquake that jolted the San Francisco Bay Area in 1989. The catastrophic natural disaster also struck the Oakland-Giants 1989 World ...

Blackburn designed a complex system that pumps water from San Francisco Bay and sends it through portable high pressure ...

A retired scientist with the USGS worries about the impact the government shutdown is having on the agency's earthquake ...

Twenty-five years ago today, an earthquake interrupted Game 3 of the 1989 World Series between San Francisco and Oakland. I was there as a reporter for USA TODAY, and here's what I remember: The day ...

Assistant Fire Chief Frank Blackburn held a drill to practice the portable water system he created six days before the 1989 ...

Twenty years ago today, at 5:04 p.m., a half-hour before World Series Game 3 at Candlestick Park, Al Michaels told a national TV audience, "I think we're having an earth..." This story as been ...

It was in that twilight before baseball games, that time when the infield has been taken but the game hasn't started. Time to get a cold drink and a hot dog. Time for those who will keep score in the ...

The earthquake did not delay the game. It had nowhere near the effect of the most famous earthquake to affect an MLB game, when the Loma Prieta earthquake struck the Bay Area as the San Francisco ...

The Loma Prieta Earthquake jolted the Bay Area and beyond 33 years ago Monday, shaking buildings from their foundations, flattening a stretch of freeway in Oakland and dislodging a section of the Bay ...