He was first to develop a mechanism that explained how earthquakes were a result of faulting and not the reverse. He wrote an analysis of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake as part of the California State Earthquake Investigation Commission report, Mechanics of the Earthquake....
--Dr. Kate Hutton, Chief Seismologist, California Institute of Technology, to Los Angeles Weekly, April, 1997"Knowing when an earthquake might strike may be as simple as tracking in the sky where the Sun and Moon are. If you believe that predicting earthquakes is impossible, then everything ...
Another base-isolated building, the hospital of the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, survived a 1994 earthquake. A neighboring building that did not use the isolation technology suffered considerable damage. Engineers are developing electronic sensors to improve on base isolation ...
California firefighters join search for survivors after Turkey earthquakes Frank Infante, Bob George and search dog Shadow of the Los Angeles County Fire Department talk about search efforts following deadly earthquakes in Syria and Turkey. 2 years ago Turkish officials arrest building developers follo...
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Jurisdictions in California have identified and required seismic upgrades to these types of structures, because they’ve represented a significant percentage of lives lost in past earthquakes. Los Angeles, San Francisco, and most recently, Pasadena, have gone this route. Meanwhile, here we are in ...
The debate over how seismically safe California hospitals should be dates to the 1971 Sylmar quake near Los Angeles, which prompted a law requiring new hospitals to be built to withstand an earthquake and continue operating. In 1994, after the magnitude 6.7 Northridge quake killed at least 57 pe...
WARNING:Larger earthquakes in southern California have occurred more frequently in the past than had previously been thought.A 6.0 to 7.0 Richter Scale quake is predicted for both Los Angeles and San Francisco sometime soon. Similarly, a quake of 8.0 to 9.0 has been predicted for the northwester...
Jonathan Stewart, a professor of civil and environmental engineering from the University of California, Los Angeles, told CNN that while the quake was 30 times weaker than the 7.8 magnitude quake that hit Turkey earlier this year, it still released “a tremendous amount of energy” and was like...
In Oakland, feelings have run high over replacing the Nimitz, perhaps the emotional symbol of last fall's quake. The California Department of Transportation is looking most earnestly at building a new highway west of where the old one ran. But the agency hasn't completely ruled out building ...