The historic Porter Building at the corner of Main Street and Maple Avenue will be getting some exterior upgrades that still ...

A 3.3-magnitude earthquake hit Northern California Monday evening near Los Banos, about 30 miles from San Jose. No damage ...

In California, where the next "Big One" is an always-looming threat, some lessons learned from the 1925 Santa Barbara quake ...

In California, where the next "Big One" is an always-looming threat, some lessons learned from the 1925 Santa Barbara quake resonate even 100 years later, experts say.

David Gene Parker – whose veteran leadership helped the Oakland A’s win a World Series title in 1989 – has died after ...

One of the greatest but controversial MLB players of the 1970s and '80s has passed away just a month before entering the Hall ...

Flower Songs & Flor y Canto," June 28, 1 - 4 p.m., at Boronda Adobe History Center in Salinas. Admission free.

Impact: The 1933 earthquake was Southern California’s deadliest in the modern record, leaving nearly 120 dead and causing $40 ...

A 10-story building made from cold-formed steel held up to a generated earthquake by the earthquake shake table at UC San ...

Researchers at UC San Diego on Friday put a 10-story, cold-formed steel building to the test, simulating how the structure would move in the midst of a major earthquake.

UC San Diego is preparing to use its outdoor shake table in Scripps Ranch to determine whether 10-story buildings made of cold-formed steel can withstand massive earthquakes.

This was on a section of the San Andreas Fault System named for the nearby Loma Prieta Peak in the Santa Cruz Mountains. That fault system had largely been asleep since the 1906 earthquake.