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Oceanside City Council extends deadline for building owners to meet California's earthquake retrofitting standards. -
The USGS has proposed cutting the Precision Geodetic Network, or Geodesy, which measures tension along the San Jacinto Fault, and the ANZA Seismic Network, which has 21 sensors along the fault zone and five stations elsewhere. -
San Diego County is surrounded by active faults capable of unleashing large quakes up to a magnitude 7 or higher. -
A major Northern California earthquake that caused an estimated $400 million in damage also unloosed torrents of groundwater that may help ease the region's drought. -
California’s earthquake early warning system is up and running — but there’s no money or infrastructure to distribute alerts to the general public yet.
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KPBS Midday EditionEarthquake researchers predict there's a 99 percent chance Southern California will experience a 6.7-magnitude earthquake in the next 30 years. -
KPBS Midday EditionThe 6.0-magnitude quake in Napa, California is causing some to take second look at UC San Diego research that indicates an uplift in the earth's surface — caused by the drought — is causing seismic activity to spring up. -
The 6.0-magnitude temblor sent at least 120 people to a Napa hospital, with three critically injured. More than a dozen buildings in the town of 80,000 are uninhabitable, and many more were damaged. Gov. Jerry Brown declared a state of emergency for the region. -
A few residents in El Centro, La Quinta, Palm Desert, San Diego and Thermal reported weak shaking to the USGS, but no damages. -
There were no reports of damage, but residents in some communities like Adak, which were first in line for the tsunami, did evacuate.
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