How San Francisco’s Next Big Quake Could Play Out

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It’s easy to connect our brief unease to the ongoing catastrophe in L.A., with 10 fatalities and 10,000 structures destroyed, or to the fact that California’s next disaster may

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JUST before dawn on 18 April 1906, the ground shook for one long minute beneath the young city of San Francisco, home to one-quarter of America’s population west of

A 3.9 magnitude earthquake shook the North Bay early Thursday morning, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The quake struck at about 3:40 a.m. about 12 miles

Like New Orleans, San Francisco suffered mass destruction from a natural disaster when the great earthquake of 1906 left much of the city in ruins. Today, some experts

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In fact, new data from the United States Geological Survey suggests the next one to hit the Bay Area will likely be larger and more impactful than previously thought. As far as when, geologists

None of this offers guarantees because, by nature, probabilities can change but with everything we know at the moment, the USGS says there’s a 95% chance San Francisco

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Experts told Newsweek that California’s next major seismic event is most likely to occur in the southern part of the state. „Overall, Southern California has a 36% chance of a

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At 7.8 or higher magnitude, it may cause widespread destruction across Southern California or the San Francisco Bay Area depending on the rupture location. California’s

U.S. Geological Survey scientists say a 7.0 magnitude quake on the Hayward Fault is likely to kill at least 800 people throughout the Bay Area, leave 150,000 people

Projected losses resulting from a magnitude 7.8 quake on the San Andreas Fault Deaths: 2,550 Hospitalizations: 2,401 Buildings destroyed: 13,357 Buildings with extensive damage: 59,005 Buildings

Meanwhile, geological experts pointed out that there is a 72 percent chance of a massive shaker on the 60-mile-long Hayward Fault or any other of the Bay Area’s big faults

In terms of the potential damage of this hypothetical earthquake, Cal Poly geotechnical engineering professor Rob Moss said ground damage, liquefaction and disruption

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