Los Angeles Times3d
Column: Our biggest threat might not be earthquakes or fires, but human nature
As far away as Los Angeles ... The thing about earthquakes, though, is that they don’t wait for Santa Ana winds or drought. That threat is constant. Now I’ll never sleep.
Scientists know where the big earthquakes will hit. They just don’t know when
A lurch in the Earth’s tectonic plates can wreak havoc at any time – as we’ve just seen in Vanuatu. How do scientists measure ...
What Los Angeles Could Learn From Great Fires of the Past
In the era when American cities regularly caught fire, the widespread destruction seeded what looks, in retrospect, like ...
AOL3d
Column: Our biggest threat might not be earthquakes or fires, but human nature
As far away as Los Angeles, buildings would collapse ... two together,” Jones said. “Having an earthquake when we’re having Santa Anas.” Now I’ll never sleep. For a day or two in ...
LA is a modern-day Pompeii and in 50 years could be the world’s first ghost megalopolis
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 ...
Here's how climate change is reshaping home insurance costs in California — and the rest of the U.S.
California's Department of Insurance also recently passed regulations that pave the way for rate increases in exchange for ...
Rents rise as refugees from the fires squeeze into L.A.’s tight housing market
The Palisades and Eaton fires destroyed or damaged more than 8,500 homes in an already tight housing market. Experts said the ...
NDTV3d
Earthquake Of Magnitude 4.8 Hits Myanmar
An earthquake of magnitude 4.8 on the Richter Scale jolted Myanmar in the early hours of Friday, the National Center for Seismology (NCS) said. According to NCS, the magnitude 4.8 earthquake ...
CNN6d
A magnitude 6 earthquake hits southern Taiwan, leaving 15 people with minor injuries
Taipei, Taiwan (AP) — An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of six struck southern Taiwan early Tuesday, according to the US Geological Survey, leaving 15 people with minor injuries.