The last time the fault really bared its teeth was the Northridge Earthquake in 1994. It is, by historic standards, due to do so again, sometime soon. Professor Davina had been making preparations. In the garage, beneath a dusty bunch of yellow plastic roses, I find the remnants of a b...
it covered over six million acres and was the largest such forest in California. By 1908, the forest had been reduced to its current 1.2 million acres, with the remaining lands being designated as part of Yosemite, Sequoia, and Kings Canyon National Parks, as well as the Inyo...
The tract was originally part of the Rancho San Pedro, a 1784 Spanish land grant. Founded as a Methodist colony in 1867 and named for G.D. Compton, a pioneer settler, it developed as a farming village. Following an earthquake (March 10, 1933), which severely damaged the business district...
The Pier that was rebuilt in the 90s was engineered to withstand severe storms or earthquakes. Large fractions of the settled delta are in earthquake liquefaction zones above known active faults. Most of the local faults are named after city streets. Many residents (and even city hall) li...
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Walsh, 46, who is living on a boat in Marina del Rey while earthquake damage at his Studio City house is being repaired, compared the six-day-a-week sessions to baseball’s spring training, where everyone is trying to get in shape for the long season. ...
Consider, for example, the re-stitching of San Francisco’s Hayes Valley neighborhood following the demolition of the earthquake damaged double-tiered Central Freeway. Yet in other circumstances, adjacent locales march to decidedly different tunes. Consider a neighbourhood ‘on the other side of the...
Oakland Athletics won the American League West title. San Francisco Giants won the National League West title. It was the Battle of the Bay. The Loma Prieta Earthquake struck just as Game 3 began. Business in 1998 Google, in Mountain View, claimed this date as its birthday. Google.com regi...
The Rainbow Pier in the 1930s The wide beachfront area that once characterized Long Beach has been replaced by landfill, while roads lead westward to the Shoreline Aquatic Park and Village, and to the restaurant and shopping area adjacent to the Aquarium dubbed the “Pike” area (complete with...
That same year, 2009, saw a one-day, mini-run in August when twelve threshers were hooked with four landed. Interestingly it was the same day as an earthquake in Baja. Waters around the pier were filled with sea lions, dolphins, and, apparently, threshers. Some speculated that the assem...