The Northridge earthquake that hit 25 years ago offered alarming evidence of how vulnerable many types of buildings are to collapse from major shaking. It toppled hundreds of apartments ...

But, as structural engineers reported to the state after the Northridge earthquake, the collapse of a single concrete building "has the potential for more loss of life than any other catastrophe ...

Many dingbats collapsed during the 1994 Northridge earthquake. Using the Department of Building and Safety website, you can easily check to see if your building is on that list. Just enter your ...

In a flash, freeway overpasses collapsed. Buildings ... Earthquake Center at the University of Southern California. "It's been ungodly quiet from a seismic point of view since Northridge." ...

If the building doesn’t do well, and collapses, you won’t have to worry about grandchildren. In the Northridge Earthquake, one of the major collapses was of the interchange of the 210 ...

30 years ago today, Los Angeles was jolted awake by a massive earthquake centered ... tens of thousands of buildings. 16 people died when the support columns of the Northridge Meadows apartment ...

LOS ANGELES — It's been 30 years since a deadly 6.7 magnitude earthquake devastated ... "Freeway bridges collapsed, apartment buildings collapsed onto parking lots, something like 500 fires ...

The morning of January 17, 1994, was a seismic turning point in Southern California’s history as the Northridge earthquake ... reported injuries. The collapse of buildings and bridges ...

When the 6.7 magnitude Northridge earthquake struck at 4:30 a.m., it wiped out buildings and bridges, leaving overpasses and freeway lanes stacked on each other like a collapsed Jenga puzzle.

which can give out and cause the building to collapse on itself and tip over — like what we saw with the Northridge Meadows apartments in the Northridge Earthquake in 1994. You can sometimes ...