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Remembering Northridge
Today is a day of significant quake anniversaries for the U.S. and Japan. The last U.S. quake to kill more than a few people struck the L.A. suburb of Northridge 19 years ago today, in the wee hours of...
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Danse de la Terre
Last week marked 100 years since the debut of my favorite piece of music of all time: Igor Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring. The ballet debuted to a legendary amount of controversy, but its cacophonous,...
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China’s earthquake ruins: a memorial ghost town
Last month China unveiled an earthquake memorial park to commemorate the lives lost and damage wrought by the M7.9 Wenchuan earthquake that occurred 5 years ago this May. The Atlantic has a set of...
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Are you ready for an earthquake? Make sure today.
Image: University of Canterbury, September 2010 What if an earthquake hit right now, the moment you read this? A big one. You get a few seconds of puzzling low rumbling to figure out what’s going on,...
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Two decades since L.A.’s Northridge earthquake
It’s already been twenty years since Los Angeles was last really rocked by an earthquake. The 4:31am Northridge temblor, a magnitude 6.7 that literally threw the city from its sleep, was the iconic...
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Tohoku tsunami maps: lessons for the Pacific Northwest
As we pass the three-year mark since one of the most astoundingly gargantuan earthquakes in human history, we marvel at the unprecedented opportunity it gave us to understand earthquakes, tsunamis,...
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The second largest quake on the planet: photos, videos, and its informative...
Chaotic resting place of the Turnagain Heights neighborhood after 4 minutes of shaking and lateral spreading. Photo source: wikimedia commons/NOAA As I am sure everyone has recognized by now, one of...
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What would the 1906 earthquake look like today?
Looking across Gough Street from Lafayette Park in 1906/now Today is the 108th anniversary of the devastating M7.8 San Francisco earthquake. As with any “quakiversary” it’s a ripe opportunity for...
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Hollywood and the USGS both have announcements about California quakes
The last day has been chock full of big public-facing announcements regarding earthquakes, so it’s a good time to step in and sort them out, as well as a good time for (real life) earthquake...
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Get Prepared Now
The scenes of violent shaking in dense urban Mexico City from the new Sept 19 earthquake are genuinely horrifying. Buildings twist, collide, crumble, buckle, and collapse before your eyes like some...
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