USGS continues to monitor landslide-prone areas in Bay Area after latest storm
The USGS has monitoring stations strategically scattered around the Bay Area in landslide-prone areas. The agency also has years of monitoring data to compare with real-time data, which helps ...
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California expands list of high-risk fire areas: Over 2.3M acres will face more stringent rules
REFLECTING INTENSIFYING WILDFIRES and updated science, new state maps designate more than 2.3 million acres of local land in California as facing “high” ...
The Bay Area doesn’t get rain equally. Here’s why a 20-mile difference means 30 more inches
Bay Area locales logged strikingly different rain totals as storms soaked the region in early February. Just one-and-a-half inches fell in San Jose from Feb. 1 through Feb. 7, but about 20 miles away, ...
California calls for 5-foot clearance around homes: What does it mean?
Gavin Newsom, facing nationwide criticism after the devastating Los Angeles fires, on Thursday signed an executive order to ...
Series of small earthquakes shake Bay Area near Hayward fault
The epicenter for all the quakes was about one mile east of Hayward, in San Francisco’s East Bay, according to the U.S.