--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 ...
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....
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...
She said most of the other staff were not fazed by the quake, but as a Wisconsin native new to California, it was an experience. “I didn’t know what was going on,” Bartkus said, adding that she was a little scared. But now, “things are back to normal.” The experie...
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 ...
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California: San Francisco, Los Angeles, Sacramento, and Bakersfield (Fig.2), yielding four different scenario earthquake catalogs. The first two are for large population centers located near major faults. At least for California, these urban areas have high seismicity rates, hazard, and risk. The...
A preliminary magnitude 5.3 earthquake struck in the middle of the seventh inning. It was centered near Mettler, California, about 89 miles north of downtown Los Angeles, according to the Los Angeles Fire Department. The Phillies announcers said they didn’t feel it in their booth, but it wa...
“Deafening,” Gordon recalls now, 30 years later. “You couldn’t hear your own scream.” California Unshaken: The complete L.A. Times newsletter guide to earthquake readiness and resilience June 18, 2021 Gordon saw Jared being flung across his bedroom as it shook, ricocheting off the walls...
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 likely...