“I actually fell out of bed, it moved the bed out from under me,” said Caroline Veach, a Sunland resident. The quake cost $20 billion in property damage — the most expensive U.S. natural disaster ...

Southern California seismologist Lucy Jones' job is to study earthquakes for ways to make people safer. Known as "The Earthquake Lady," Jones spends a lot of time focused on the vast gap between what ...

The 1994 California Northridge Earthquake was a seismic event that impacted infrastructure, earthquake engineering practices, and community resilience. Thirty years later, TRB hosted a webinar on ...

Northridge Earthquake, CA, January 17, 1994 — An aerial view of destruction caused by the 6.7 magnitude earthquake. Damage costs were estimated at $25 billion. FEMA News Photo On January 17, 1994, ...

A major earthquake hasn't struck any of California's biggest cities in more than three decades, but experts and officials say the so-called "Big One" is a matter of when, not if. And the risk is far ...

The Northridge quake, like the Bay Area quake before it, proved that even California, with the most advanced building codes in America, has based these codes-- which is to say, its homes and business ...