USGS Using Twitter Data To Track Earthquakes Around The World
Hundreds of millions of Twitter users around the globe far outnumber the roughly 2,000 sensors used by the USGS to track earthquakes for the National Earthquake Information Center.
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Hundreds of millions of Twitter users around the globe far outnumber the roughly 2,000 sensors used by the USGS to track earthquakes for the National Earthquake Information Center.
A puppy was stolen from a San Francisco animal shelter Thursday afternoon and Animal Care and Control officials are asking for help in getting him back.
Facebook is going "Inside Out" on the Like button, adding a range of new emotional reactions to the iconic thumbs-up icon it launched in 2009.
A man suspected of fatally shooting a woman near San Francisco's Powell Street BART station on Tuesday night has been arrested, police said Thursday.
The roar of the Blue Angels aerobatic team was heard around San Francisco today as aviators with the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps practice their routines in the skies above the city in preparation for their main events this weekend.
Not since the Southern Pacific railroad rolled into this sleepy high desert town in Nevada more than a century ago has there been such excitement -- Tesla Motors and other technology companies are coming.
San Francisco 49ers linebacker Ahmad Brooks left the team this week after his sister, Krsunthia Brooks, died of lupus, according to the player's agent Greg Williams.
A man has been arrested in the killing of a cat in San Jose weeks after someone matching his description was seen snatching a cat from outside a residence.
The minister of a Black Muslim temple in Oakland and his mother have pleaded no contest to felony charges for running a fraud ring to win security contracts in Alameda County and Los Angeles, prosecutors said.
A man who threatened to jump from a two-story building in San Francisco's South of Market neighborhood for over three hours on Wednesday was booked into jail on suspicion of auto theft, resisting arrest, giving false information to police and driving with a suspended license, a California Highway Patrol officer said.
Energy producers are faced with higher coal and gas costs while wind and solar look more appealing.
The sky over Pluto may not be sunny but it's undoubtedly blue.
One Palo Alto library reopened Thursday after bed bugs were found last month in two chairs, while another will close again Friday to be checked that a bed bug treatment worked there, city officials said.
Authorities say they recovered a gun thought to be used to kill a popular tantra yoga teacher.
The San Jose Sharks announced Thursday they would not appeal the National Hockey League's historic suspension of forward Raffi Torres.
