Until Jan. 7, when fires began to destroy thousands of buildings and claim at least 28 lives, my biggest fear about living in California was earthquakes ... As far away as Los Angeles, buildings ...

In the era when American cities regularly caught fire, the widespread destruction seeded what looks, in retrospect, like ...

California was rocked by an earthquake early Friday, marking the fourth to hit the state in over 24 hours. One of the quakes ...

The huge costs of the historic Los Angeles ... for wildfire and earthquake costs, according to the state Department of Insurance, leading to the establishment in 1996 of the California Earthquake ...

Much of the important preparation for natural disasters is psychological. Every time there’s an earthquake or a natural disaster in Southern California, the news organizations call Dr. Lucy Jones. Dr.

Within a decade, more than 5,000 residents lived in Malibu. Architects warned of the danger of building in the area, known to ...

A preliminary magnitude 2.6 earthquake struck near ... Dean Fioresi is a web producer for CBS Los Angeles. He covers breaking news throughout Southern California. When he's not writing about ...

Since the fires, a gradual hollowing out, and even abandonment, of Los Angeles has already begun. With the threat of earthquakes, fires and volcanic eruptions, Jonathan Margolis talks to the experts w ...

Giannini built on this good will, turning his baby bank into San Francisco’s biggest, branching out across California and ...

For the Valley 31 years later, the 1994 Northridge earthquake was a defining moment, testing the resilience of its residents and the strength of its community institutions.