This year is the thirtieth anniversary of Japan's Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake. The Northridge Earthquake in Southern California happened just one year earlier, in 1994. The two events killed ...

Thirty-one years ago this week, Riordan put it to good use, and it echoes on the anniversary of the Northridge earthquake as a kind of playbook — lessons learned amid the city of L.A.’s and ...

At exactly 4:30:55 a.m. on Jan. 17, 1994, Los Angeles was rocked by a magnitude 6.7 earthquake that caused catastrophic damage, particularly near the epicenter in the San Fernando Valley.

The other big ones here are Sylmar at 6.6, Whittier Narrows at 5.9, Sierra Madre at 5.8 and Northridge 6.7. Above: Earthquake Damage in Greater Los Angeles, compiled by Robert P. Masse and James W ...

This year is the thirtieth anniversary of Japan’s Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake. The Northridge Earthquake in Southern California happened just one year earlier, in 1994. The two events killed ...

At exactly 4:30:55 a.m. on Jan. 17, 1994, Los Angeles was rocked by a magnitude 6.7 earthquake that caused catastrophic damage, particularly near the epicenter in the San Fernando Valley.