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A 3.3-magnitude earthquake hit Northern California Monday evening near Los Banos, about 30 miles from San Jose. No damage ...
In California, where the next "Big One" is an always-looming threat, some lessons learned from the 1925 Santa Barbara quake resonate even 100 years later, experts say.
David Gene Parker – whose veteran leadership helped the Oakland A’s win a World Series title in 1989 – has died after ...
Flower Songs & Flor y Canto," June 28, 1 - 4 p.m., at Boronda Adobe History Center in Salinas. Admission free.
The church earned basilica status after a five-year restoration project sharpened its beauty and made it earthquake-safe.
Impact: The 1933 earthquake was Southern California’s deadliest in the modern record, leaving nearly 120 dead and causing $40 ...
The UC San Diego shake table, located on an industrial lot off Pomerado Road, is the only outdoor facility of its kind in the ...
A 10-story building made from cold-formed steel held up to a generated earthquake by the earthquake shake table at UC San ...
Researchers at UC San Diego on Friday put a 10-story, cold-formed steel building to the test, simulating how the structure would move in the midst of a major earthquake.
Then there was the Loma Prieta earthquake that rocked the San Francisco Bay Area in 1989, killing 63 people and injuring nearly 3,800 others.
Before that, it was the 6.9 magnitude Loma Prieta Earthquake on Oct. 17, 1989, which disrupted the World Series, and wrecked the Bay Bridge, Oakland’s Cypress Freeway, downtown Santa Cruz, and ...