LOS ANGELES -- If you were living in Southern California in the 1990s, you probably know that Wednesday is the 24th anniversary of the Northridge earthquake. On this day in 1994 at 4:31 a.m., a ...

This week, Southern California is observing the 20th anniversary of an event that many wish had never happened, but which remains a vivid memory in the minds of hundreds of thousands of people who ...

“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 ...

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 ...

Southbound traffic comes to a halt on the 14 Freeway after the 1994 Northridge earthquake, which left large pieces of the roadway heavily damaged. (Lacy Atkins / Los Angeles Times) A major earthquake ...

In the frightening and confusing first hour after the 1994 Northridge earthquake, fire-rescue teams were dispatched to collapsed buildings and freeway overpasses, fires and other emergencies around ...

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 ...

At 4:30 a.m., on Jan. 17, 1994, Santa Monica residents were jolted from their sleep by the powerful shaking of the Northridge earthquake. This was the first earthquake to strike directly under an ...