I’d be under the nearest table the second I felt the first shudder.

It’s not that the ground motions in 1906 were significantly larger than those in 1989 it’s that the area experiencing intense shaking was much, much greater. We don’t know if the next rupture will look...

We want to emphasize that a large earthquake such as 1906 is not just a San Francisco quake, but a Northern California earthquake. Earthquakes greater than magnitude 7 are going to cause intense shaking over...

Things could be worse for San Francisco itself with a rupture that begins south of the city, than it was in 1906 when the rupture began very close to it.