The 1987 Whittier Narrows earthquake, which struck east of downtown Los Angeles on a branch of the Puente Hills, was a magnitude 5.9 that killed eight people and caused $358 million in property ...

Los Angeles was likely too far away from Monday’s epicenter for anyone to feel the quake’s “P” wave — the first type of shaking wave an earthquake generates, in which the rock vibrates ...

A preliminary 3.6 magnitude earthquake struck near Los Banos, according to the United States Geological Survey.

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