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KPBS Midday EditionThe Scripps Health medical response team treated more than two thousand people in Nepal after a 7.8 magnitude earthquake in April. -
A series of six earthquakes ranging in magnitude from 2.8 to 4.1 rattled the Imperial County city of Calipatria Wednesday night. -
Four nurses and a team leader from Scripps Health left San Diego Friday on a three-week trip to help survivors of the devastating earthquake in Nepal. -
KPBS Midday EditionChris Van Gorder, CEO of Scripps Health and Dr. Mark Olcott, an emergency room physician at Scripps Green Hospital, talk about their upcoming mission. -
Scientists say the earthquake fault that runs through the coastal city of Ventura can produce strong shaking and dangerous tsunamis, prompting state officials to study whether to revise hazard maps. -
KPBS Midday EditionThe chance of a magnitude-8 quake striking the state in the next three decades jumped to 7 percent from 4.7 percent. -
Many city of San Diego departments have incomplete emergency plans. The city's Office of Homeland Security is working to update those plans, but changes won't come until after this summer. -
An audit released last summer found that many San Diego city departments had outdated or inaccurate information in their plans for what to do in case of an emergency. Now the city is working to update its plans. -
The warning system would provide enough time for trains to brake, utilities to shut off gas lines and people to dive under a table until the shaking stops. -
Oceanside City Council extends deadline for building owners to meet California's earthquake retrofitting standards.
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