One year after the 2025 Los Angeles fires, Caltech researchers continue pushing forward with projects aimed at public health ...

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Just as earthquakes have defined much of the physical and cultural landscape of Southern California from the 1925 Santa Barbara quake to 1994’s Northridge temblor, CalTech’s famed Seismological ...

A 6.7 magnitude earthquake woke Angelenos at 4:30 in the morning on January 17th, 1994. Called the Northridge Earthquake, it killed fifty-seven people and caused between $20 and $40 billion worth of ...