Tag: Earthquake

LOS ANGELES—A study released by the U.S. Geological Survey on Thursday, March 2, indicated that the city of Los Angeles is due for a...

WEST HOLLYWOOD/SANTA MONICA—The Los Angeles City Council unanimously passed a law that will require brittle concrete buildings and apartment buildings with large open spaces...

SHERMAN OAKS—A 2.5 magnitude earthquake struck the hills near Sherman Oaks on Saturday, October 29, reported the U.S. Geological Survey. According to the USGS, the quake struck...

UNITED STATES—One Tuesday afternoon, sunny and cool, lullabied by the sound of cars streaming from the 10 to the 110, I neared the end...

HOLLYWOOD—Disaster movies are quite fun. Notably because they take the idea of the extreme and throw every possible facet in the audience’s face. The...

MALIBU—A 2.7 magnitude earthquake hit the Malibu region on Sunday, May 17 at around about 8:27 p.m. The U.S. Geological Survey reported that the epicenter of the...

BEVERLY HILLS—A 3.9 magnitude earthquake struck the Los Angeles area on Sunday, May 3. Residents in Beverly Hills, Inglewood, Downey, South Los Angeles, Huntington Beach,...

SANTA MONICA—Documentary filmmaker Tom Taplin, of Santa Monica, was killed by an avalanche on Mount Everest following Saturday's 7.8 magnitude earthquake. Taplin, an avid mountaineer,...

BEVERLY HILLS—The Beverly Hills Police Department issued an advisory warning residents of a phone scam in which the caller identifies himself as a city...

SANTA MONICA—On Monday, June 7 at approximately 5 p.m., a series of small earthquakes hit four miles off of Hermosa Beach in the Santa...

BEVERLY HILLS—The City of Beverly Hills is announcing the 2010 City of Beverly Hills “I’m Prepared!” Earthquake Preparedness Pledge Drive. During the city’s second annual...

MALIBU—On May 14, an earthquake measuring at a magnitude of 3.9 hit parts of Southern California, including Oxnard and Malibu, according to the United...

MALIBU/LOS ANGELES—An earthquake that occurred in Mexico on Easter Sunday created aftershocks that were felt in different parts of Southern California. The 7.2 quake that...

HAITI —I have been to Haiti, once. It was in 1972. I remember it vividly. The sad thing is that Haiti has not changed...