A view of the building at the corner of High Street and University Avenue soon after the 1906 earthquake. Piles of rubble lie on the street next to the damaged building. Several men stand in the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The tower of the Ferry Building at the foot of Market Street remains intact in the aftermath of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake ...

A fire erased 200,000 library books in 1906, but one soot-marked survivor has returned after 119 years with a mystery still ...

Inside a charred book, pages dotted in soot stains tell the story of how San Francisco rose to the epicenter of a gold rush. Barely escaping the 1906 earthquake, this book should’ve burned completely.

San Francisco city leaders, historians, and community members woke up early Thursday morning to commemorate 118 years since a massive earthquake and fire destroyed much of the city in 1906. The ...

A book of poetry that survived the catastrophic 1906 earthquake and fire has been returned to the Mechanics’ Institute.

SAN FRANCISCO - On April 18, 1906, San Franciscans were awoken at 5:11 a.m. by what would become the deadliest earthquake in U.S. history. On Thursday, 118 years later, residents of the city and first ...

SAN FRANCISCO (KRON) — Thursday marked the anniversary of the 1906 earthquake and fire that devastated San Francisco, killing 3,000 people. It’s been more than a century since then and a lot of ...

SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- San Francisco is marking the 119th anniversary of the 1906 earthquake and fire that nearly destroyed the city. Every year on April 18, a moment of silence is observed at 5:11 ...

An earthquake with a magnitude of 6.0 rocked the San Francisco Bay area early Sunday morning, causing serious damage to the Napa County area, and felt all over Northern California. Much like in the ...