
Curiosity–perhaps stemming from fear–helped earthquake disaster film San Andreas make a killing at the box office, scoring it a seismic $52.3 million on opening weekend. Nineteen of the 20 top-grossing movie theaters were located in California’s Bay Area and the greater Los Angeles region, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Those two areas are the most earthquake-prone in the country.
by Adelle Nazarian1 Jun 2015, 12:18 PM PST0

An earthquake struck the Baldwin Hills area of Los Angeles just after 4 am Pacific time at a depth of 5.6 miles registering 3.9 on the Richter scale.
by Robert Wilde3 May 2015, 5:09 AM PST0

Late Sunday night, a magnitude 3.5 earthquake rocked Los Angeles to sleep. While the San Andreas and Hayward faults grab headlines when the media talk of the “big one,” a lesser-known fault line named the Concord is flying under the radar. Geologists, however, have been keeping a watchful eye on the 11-mile-long fissure that is equally, if not more, capable of producing a devastating and catastrophic earthquake.
by Adelle Nazarian13 Apr 2015, 4:15 AM PST0