Forty percent of small businesses never reopen after a natural disaster and another 25% that reopen fail within a year, emergency management experts warned last week at a forum on
More than 1,400 buildings in Santa Monica are still seismically vulnerable despite efforts by the city to ensure building owners retrofit their properties.
A report released by the city’
Aftershocks from Southern California’s largest earthquake in 20 years rumbled beneath the Mojave Desert on Friday as authorities tallied damage in the sparsely populated region.
The strongest aftershock thus
JOHN ANTCZA
Associated Press
Twenty-five years ago this week, a violent, pre-dawn earthquake shook Los Angeles from its sleep, and sunrise revealed widespread devastation, with dozens killed and $25 billion
Developers testing an earthquake early warning system for the West Coast say its automated alerts are ready to be used more broadly, but not for mass public notification.
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Los Angeles was jolted by a small earthquake that rattled nerves and got people talking on social media, but didn't cause any major damage.
The
By Kate Cagle
As many as 2,000 buildings in Santa Monica may be vulnerable to collapse or major damage during an earthquake, despite the city’s decades-old law requiring
By Marina Andalon
Living in Southern California we are vulnerable to a wide range of threats like earthquakes. According to the U.S. Geological Survey, “The San Andreas Fault runs
A tsunami advisory took effect Thursday for Santa Monica beaches and a large swath of the Southern California coastline following a pair of high-magnitude earthquakes in Chile.
Santa Monica emergency
Last week's SMa.r.t. column was about sustainability. This week we look at another part of sustainability: surviving inevitable crises that rarely occur but have a disastrous
The 10th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina arrives Aug. 29, and it's hard to believe that it has been 10 years since Hurricane Katrina struck the Gulf Coast.
When
