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Most of the 33 buildings are in the Los Angeles Basin, which has been spared the strongest shaking of L.A. County’s two most destructive earthquakes since World War II — the magnitude 6.6 ...
The earliest known earthquake in the U.S. state of California was documented in 1769 by the Spanish explorers and Catholic missionaries of the Portolá expedition as they traveled northward from San Diego along the Santa Ana River near the present site of Los Angeles. Ship captains and other explorers also documented earthquakes.
According to a Suffolk University/Los Angeles Times poll conducted in March 2023, Los Angeles residents strongly back the city's earthquake retrofit law, despite conventional wisdom that it would ...
A Southern California hospital spent $72 million on a building designed to do two things after an earthquake: stay standing and stay open. The hospital in Ridgecrest, about 150 miles (240 ...
While it is little-known outside of the fields of earthquake science and emergency response, CEPEC has a big responsibility: The council convenes at the request of the California Emergency Management Agency (CalEMA) to decide whether an earthquake prediction or an incident, such as swarm of small earthquakes, is serious enough to merit a ...
Residents clean up in the Van Nuys neighborhood following the 1994 Northridge earthquake in Los Angeles on January 17, 1994. - Vinnie Zuffante/Getty Images
The last big earthquake in this area on the San Andreas caused one part of the fault to move past the other by 12 to 14 feet, making it a likely magnitude 7.3 or 7.4 earthquake.
The Puente Hills thrust fault system is in a broad zone directly underneath the densest parts of the L.A. area, including downtown Los Angeles, ... California, the last major earthquake on the San ...