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She remains at Caltech and will work more on the effects of climate change and global warming.
The Semidi segment of the subduction zone in the Aleutian Islands points right at us and is "too quiet."
USGS disputes the surprise claim that the La Habra area would endure a substantial quake in the next three years.
The deadliest and most destructive earthquake ever in North America will happen when the Cascadia subduction zone fully ruptures. If it does.
LA's favorite earthquake expert tweets her review of the latest impossible movie disaster to destroy Los Angeles.
Task Force 2 reunited with families Sunday at the base in Pacoima.
The 15-year-old, found with rescue dogs, says there are others near him in the debris of a collapsed hotel where he worked.
The urban search and rescue team has previously gone to Haiti, Japan, New Zealand and the Hurricane Katrina destruction zone.
And in California, the threat of a magnitude 8 quake, the Big One for us, has been raised by USGS.
Mayor Eric Garcetti and his advisor, seismologist Lucy Jones, unveiled an earthquake plan for Los Angeles that requires vulnerable pre-1980 apartments to retrofit within five years. Concrete buildings at risk get 25 years.
This news from the state geologist won't be good for the developers of the proposed Millennium Hollywood tower or their friends in City Hall.
If you want breaking news in the LA area at night, you might be better off not going to the LA Times website. They prefer quakebot copy to real news.
Turns out that almost everybody in the Napa and Vallejo areas got up when the quake hit at 3:20 a.m. and half of those stayed up the rest of the night. Based on data, not anecdote.
The quake centered near Napa and Vallejo woke up the entire Bay Area and a swath of Northern California at 3:20 this morning. At least 70 people have gone to hospitals with an assortment of injuries, and there is damage reported to highway bridges, gas and water pipes, and some buildings.
An earthquake of the variety that seismologists classify as "light" rumbled under the basin at 7:36, prompting a routine cautionary response from the LAFD and the usual suspects in LA media to do their over-excited thing on Twitter.
The LA Times has taken the state's January maps of the earthquake faults that pass under Hollywood and added an interesting visual.
Tsunami warnings were called for the upper west coast of South America, with warnings as far north as Mexico. But the tsunami threat has passed.
Definitions and frequently asked questions from USGS at your fingertips, plus some other advice.
The magnitude 5.1 earthquake at 9:09 p.m. was centered near the border of Los Angeles and Orange counties, 21 miles southeast of the downtown Los Angeles Civic Center. There was a 3.6 foreshock and two aftershocks in the same ballpark.
There was a 2.7 micro-quake under Long Beach on Monday. The Times auto-story generator breathlessly reported the quake was centered "347 miles from Phoenix." That's helpful, thanks.
The earthquake that woke up a lot of Los Angeles at 6:25 a.m. was located near Encino and measured 4.4. Now with video of the KTLA Morning News folks performing the Shocknek Maneuver.
The earthquake at 10:18 on Sunday evening had a preliminary magnitude of 6.9. Luckily, its epicenter was 50 miles west of Eureka beneath the Pacific Ocean, in the subduction zone between tectonic plates that regularly produces sizable quakes.
Since the deadly Sylmar earthquake in 1971 it has been recognized that the flood control dams in the San Gabriels were not built sufficiently strong to hold up if a severe regional quake hit while the dams retained a full load of water.
Patch sites have been citing USC as source of documents actually from UC Berkeley. The bigger question, though, is why does LA City Hall not already have all of this data and more on its own buildings?
Definitions and frequently asked questions from USGS, plus other helpful tips. What you should know
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Significant SoCal quakes & faultsSouthern Californjia Earthquake Center
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Earthquake history of CaliforniaPrepare before a quake
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Tsunami waves
Pacific Tsunami Warning CenterHawaii tsunami warnings
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USC Tsunami Research Center
TsunamiTeacher
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Not soon forgotten
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Journalists sent to Japan freaked out by radiation
Found photos swept away by the Japan tsunami
The San Andreas Fault
The San Andreas isn't the source of all of our problems. But the fault gives California its distinctive shape and presents our biggest seismic threat.USGS page
San Andreas Fault.org
Field Guide to the San Andreas
Biggest California earthquakes
Since 1925
1952 07 21 - Kern County - 7.3 (12 deaths)1992 06 28 - Landers - 7.3 (3)
2005 06 15 - Offshore Northern California - 7.2
1980 11 08 - Humboldt County - 7.2
1992 04 25 - Cape Mendocino - 7.2
1999 10 16 - Hector Mine - 7.1
1940 05 19 - Imperial Valley - 7.1 (9)
1991 08 17 - Honeydew - 7.0
1994 09 01 - Cape Mendocino - 7.0
1989 10 18 - Loma Prieta - 6.9 (63)
1987 11 24 - Superstition Hills - 6.7
1994 01 17 - Northridge - 6.7 (60)
2003 12 22 - San Simeon - 6.6 (2)
2005 06 17 - Offshore Northern California - 6.6
1971 02 09 - San Fernando - 6.6 (65)
2010 01 10 - Offshore Northern California - 6.5
1954 12 21 - Eureka - 6.5 (1)
1987 11 24 - Superstition Hills - 6.5 (2)
1992 06 28 - Big Bear - 6.5
1932 06 06 - Eureka - 6.4 (1)
1933 03 11 - Long Beach - 6.4 (115)
1925 or earlier
1857 01 09 - Fort Tejon - 7.9 (1 death)1892 02 24 - Imperial Valley - 7.8
1906 04 18 - San Francisco - 7.8 (3,000)
1872 03 26 - Owens Valley - 7.4 (27)
1873 11 23 - California-Oregon Coast - 7.3
1922 01 31 - Eureka - 7.3
1923 01 22 - Humbolt County - 7.2
1812 12 21 - West of Ventura - 7.1 (1)
1927 11 04 - Lompoc - 7.1
1899 04 16 - Eureka - 7.0
1812 12 08 - SW of San Bernardino County - 6.9 (40)
1838 06 - San Francisco area - 6.8
1868 10 21 - Hayward - 6.8 (30)
1898 04 15 - Mendocino County - 6.8
1918 04 21 - San Jacinto - 6.8 (1)
1925 06 29 - Santa Barbara - 6.8 (13)
1899 12 25 - San Jacinto - 6.7 (6)
1865 10 08 - Santa Cruz Mountains - 6.5
1911 07 01 - Calaveras fault - 6.5
1836 06 10 - South San Francisco Bay - 6.5
1892 04 19 - Vacaville - 6.4 (1)
1892 04 21 - Winters - 6.4
1901 03 03 - Parkfield - 6.4
