A 10-story cold-formed steel-framed building will soon be put to the test on an earthquake simulator at the University of ...

According to a recent news story, California's raging home insurance woes are a result of climate change. That's certainly ...

Sen. Adam Schiff is urging Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem to reinstate the earthquake retrofit funds, which would’ve ...

A new study on the Cascadia fault line breaks down the flooding potential of a 9.0 earthquake, calculating the risk of where ...

Palo Alto City Hall. Embarcadero Media file photo. Palo Alto leaders were jolted into action in 2014 after an earthquake in southern Napa Valley caused more $1 billion in damages to homes ...

In 1994, an earthquake hit Northridge. There was a lot of damage and the CSUN was also hit hard. This documentary shows what happened then through interviews with Professor Nate Thomas and ...

That's a much larger area than the part of the San Fernando Valley that saw "violent" shaking during the 1994 Northridge earthquake, which was a magnitude 6.7. "Severe" shaking — enough to ...

While not a household name like the San Andreas, the Elsinore fault is part of a larger seismic zone that experts fear and believe more people should know about.

Some earthquakes cause even stronger ground acceleration. Peak ground shaking during the 1994 Northridge, California earthquake reached about 1.8 times the force of gravity, and more than twice ...

The California Earthquake Authority — the publicly-managed insurance company created by state lawmakers after the 1996 Northridge earthquake — estimates there is a 99% chance of a magnitude 6. ...