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California's water from Colorado River could be crippled by a big earthquake. Drought makes fixes...
LA Times via Yahoo News· 2 years agoCrews work on a portion of a 104-inch diameter earthquake-resistant ductile iron pipe on the...
Experts warn California of a disaster 'larger than any in world history.' It's not an earthquake.
USA TODAY via Yahoo News· 2 years agoMegadrought may be the main weather concern across the West right now amid the constant threat of...
String of earthquakes rattles L.A.: Are they telling us something bigger?
LA Times via Yahoo News· 2 weeks agoSouthern California was recently rattled by several small earthquakes. They produced minor shaking...
'An earthquake can drop in': More than 1 million California homes need retrofittings
LA Times via Yahoo News· 2 years agoJacqui McIntosh peers in the window of her red-tagged, quake-damaged home in Rio Dell, Calif., this...
California at risk of ‘megaflood’ where ‘every major population center would get hit at once’
The Independent via Yahoo News· 2 years agoCalifornians already live with increased risk of wildfires and drought linked to the climate crisis,...
'It could happen tomorrow': Experts know disaster upon disaster looms for West Coast
USA TODAY via Yahoo News· 2 years agoIt's the elevators that worry earthquake engineering expert Keith Porter the most. Scientists say a...
12 homes evacuated in Rolling Hills Estates after ground shifts
LA Times via Yahoo News· 12 months agoTim Hong, with California Water Services, talks with a resident who sits in front of her damaged...
In California's water crisis, neighbors turn in neighbors and even celebrities aren't spared
USA TODAY via Yahoo News· 2 years agoFrom working-class neighborhoods to the celebrity haunts of Malibu, residents in the Los Angeles...
Opinion: Thirty years after the Northridge earthquake, I still think about a hero I met that day
LA Times via Yahoo News· 5 months agoThe magnitude 6.7 Northridge earthquake hit Jan. 17, 1994, causing at least 57 deaths and as much as...
Seismologist Lucy Jones changed the way we prepare for earthquakes
The Desert Sun via Yahoo News· 4 months agoLucy Jones is one of USA TODAY’s Women of the Year, a recognition of women who have made a...