Ever since their rebranding to the Earthquakes in 2000, the team badge has featured an inverted triangular shield containing a soccer ball invoking the rising sun used in the logo for the City of San Jose, a stylized ' Earthquakes ' wordmark, and a color palette of blue, black, white and silver.

Alan Gordon has had a career best of 9 goals in 16 appearances with the Earthquakes.

Since 1996, AEG has held ownership in the Chicago Fire, San Jose Earthquakes, New York / New Jersey MetroStars and D. C. United.

He has previously played for Wisconsin Rebels, Colorado Comets, Los Angeles Galaxy, San Jose Earthquakes and Houston Dynamo.

Earthquakes also release stored elastic potential energy in rocks, a kind of mechanical potential energy which has been produced ultimately from the same radioactive heat sources.

He has described his Matt Thiessen and the Earthquakes side project as being influenced by Rufus Wainwright and Ben Folds.

Besides playing for Relient K, Hoopes has also done backup vocals for certain Matthew Thiessen and the Earthquakes songs, and has been a guest guitarist at concerts for the band My Red Hot Nightmare.

He has written a number of works including Earthquakes: a Primer in 1978 and Inside the Earth: Evidence from Earthquakes in 1982.

Having won two MLS Cup titles in three years, the Earthquakes were poised for greater success both on and off the field.

On November 13, Colorado hosted the San Jose Earthquakes in the MLS Eastern Conference Championship and won by a scoreline of 1-0.

The match also saw the rise of U. S. national Landon Donovan who won a Newcomer of the Year award and tallied the equalizer in the Earthquakes 2 – 1 championship victory over the Galaxy.

In a hotly contested match, the Earthquakes won with their second MLS Cup title with a 4 – 2 score making it the highest scoring MLS Cup final in league history ( six goals ).

Agoos won a record five MLS championships: three with D. C. United and two with the San Jose Earthquakes.

Although the Earthquakes won the MLS Cup that year, Carrieri was not there to see it-shortly into the season he was traded to the Colorado Rapids for Junior Agogo.

He won two Danish football championships with Brøndby IF and two MLS Cup trophies with San Jose Earthquakes, and represented a number of clubs, including FC Barcelona and several teams in English football.

Robinson won two MLS Cups with the Earthquakes, in 2001 and 2003, but struggled greatly to stay healthy.

The team went on to lose to the San Jose Earthquakes in the MLS Cup, but won the US Open Cup a week later with a 2 – 1 overtime victory against the New England Revolution.

The Columbus Crew edged out D. C. United on goal differential to win the 2004 competition, while the San Jose Earthquakes won the 2005 competition.

The San Jose Earthquakes again won the tournament on their return to the MLS in 2008 while Real Salt Lake claimed the title in their debut in 2009.

In September of the same year, Amos released a live album and DVD, Live at Montreux 1991 / 1992, through Eagle Rock Entertainment, of two performances she gave at the Montreux Jazz Festival very early on in her career while promoting her debut solo album, Little Earthquakes.

The boundary between two major tectonic plates results in high seismic activity in the region ( see: Category: Earthquakes in Indonesia ).

They have made two feature-length live action films: Institute Benjamenta, or This Dream People Call Human Life and The Piano Tuner Of Earthquakes.

* Commissions of Inquiry and ad hoc bodies ( as at October 2011 there are two Royal Commissions operating: The Royal Commission on the Pike River Coal Mine tragedy and the Canterbury Earthquakes Royal Commission.

After two seasons with Sheffield United, Hamilton became one of many British footballers who ended their careers in the North American Soccer League, where he played for Minnesota Kicks and San Jose Earthquakes.

The two clubs had successful regular season campaigns with the Fire winning their first ever Supporters ' Shield, and the Earthquakes being the Western Conference regular season and post-season champions as well as having the second best overall regular season record.

Because of the league's seeding at the time, where the conference winners earn the top seeds, the two weakest Western Conference teams, San Jose Earthquakes and Colorado Rapids were seeded against the Eastern Conference champion, New York Red Bulls and runner-up Columbus Crew, respectively.

Earthquakes happen when two blocks of the Earth's crust move relative to one another.

In 2001, Yallop was named head coach for the San Jose Earthquakes, just two days before the MLS SuperDraft.

Earthquakes may occur regularly here because the location is about midway on a fault segment between a locked segment to the south ( last major earthquake 1857 ) and a creeping segment to the north where two tectonic plates are continuously moving without major earthquakes.

Barrett was a consistent contributor for the Earthquakes in his first two seasons, being slowly converted from a midfielder to a defender, but was sidelined by groin injuries in the 2000 season that forced him to miss much of the year.

He moved to the San Jose Earthquakes for the 2005 season and made 18 MLS appearances for them, scoring two goals.

He also spent two seasons playing outdoor soccer with the Golden Bay Earthquakes of the North American Soccer League.

Along with the rest of his Earthquakes teammates, he moved to Houston for the 2006 season where he was part of two MLS Cup Championship runs in the 2006 and 2007 seasons.

In February 2000, he signed with the San Jose Earthquakes, playing two seasons before being waived on June 12, 2001.

He scored two hat tricks during his first season in Los Angeles: one in Week 8 against FC Dallas and one in Week 12 against the San Jose Earthquakes ,< ref >

He was picked up by the Colorado Rapids at the start of the 2008 season, but played just two games for them before being transferred to the San Jose Earthquakes for a second stint with the club until he was waived on June 25, 2009.

He scored only two goals in his time with the Whitecaps, a botched cross against the San Jose Earthquakes on May 11.

That set up a one-game showdown with the San Jose Earthquakes the winner would advance to the 2003 MLS Cup.

The Wizards would twice take the lead, but twice, the Earthquakes battled back and forced golden goal in overtime by Landon Donovan in the 117th minute, which sent his team to the 2003 MLS Cup and the Wizards home.

The San Jose Earthquakes are an American professional soccer team based in San Jose, California that participate in Major League Soccer ( MLS ).

Meanwhile, a direct connection to the earlier Earthquakes came in the person of Peter Bridgwater, named as General Manager of the MLS team.

Although Bridgwater still owned the rights to the Earthquakes name and logo, the team became known as the Clash at the urging of Nike, a major investor in MLS.

After missing four consecutive post-seasons with three different coaches, the Earthquakes hired head coach Frank Yallop days before the 2001 MLS SuperDraft.

Yallop's personnel changes and deft coaching with the help of assistant coach Dominic Kinnear and goalkeeper coach Tim Hanley, along with the allocation of star forward Landon Donovan on loan from Bayer Leverkusen, quickly turned around the Earthquakes ' on-field fortunes, spurring the biggest regular season turnaround in league history ( from 29 points in 2000 to 45 points in 2001 ) and leading the team to a 2 – 1 MLS Cup 2001 overtime victory over the archrival Los Angeles Galaxy.

Prior to reaching the 2003 final, the Earthquakes had rallied from four goals down to beat the Galaxy, 5 – 4 on aggregate, in a first-round playoff that many MLS watchers described as the greatest in league history.

However, in January 2004, General Manager Johnny Moore, whose roots with the club dated back to his days as a player for the NASL Earthquakes, resigned after AEG and MLS considered allowing the team to be rebranded as San Jose America ( with ownership to transfer to the owners of Mexico's Club América ).

However, MLS Commissioner Don Garber said that the Earthquakes ' name, colors, logo, wordmark, history and competitive records would not be transferred, similarly to the Cleveland Browns deal in the National Football League.

Earthquakes captain Ramiro Corrales during the team's first season back in MLS

According to ESPN. com, the Earthquakes compensated Yallop's previous employer, the Los Angeles Galaxy, with a third-round pick in the 2008 MLS SuperDraft.

In 2008, England's Darren Huckerby, the MLS Newcomer of the Year and Ireland's Ronnie O ' Brien, who made 28 appearances for the Earthquakes, helped anchor the offense, combining for 10 goals and 10 assists.

In 2011, the San Jose Earthquakes missed the playoffs after they finished seventh in the west and fourteenth in all of MLS.

The plan was for the new version of the San Jose Earthquakes to play in Spartan Stadium during the 2008 MLS season, then move into the new stadium in 2009.

In December 2005, the San Jose Earthquakes MLS franchise moved to Houston, Texas to become the Houston Dynamo.

On April 3, 2004, he became the youngest player to appear in a Major League Soccer ( MLS ) game when he came on as a substitute in a game against the San Jose Earthquakes.

Landon Donovan of San Jose Earthquakes | San Jose defending off Chicago Fire S. C. | Chicago's Carlos Bocanegra in the MLS Cup 2003 | 2003 MLS Cup.

From 2001 through 2004, the MLS Cup finals saw a rising of the California Clasico when stateside rivals, L. A. Galaxy and San Jose Earthquakes clashed together in the 2001 final.

Two clubs that had MLS Cup experience, the Fire and Earthquakes, played for the final that year.