Friday is the 53rd anniversary of Southern California's 1971 San Fernando earthquake, which was recorded as magnitude 6.6. Also known as the Sylmar earthquake, it killed 64 people and caused over ...

This flaw, now well known, was identified after the 1971 Sylmar quake. During that magnitude 6.6 earthquake, two concrete structures at the Veterans Administration Hospital in San Fernando ...

Using the pictorial form, this map gives a visual description of the destruction caused by the larger earthquakes that have struck greater L.A. While the brutal 1971 Sylmar earthquake does not ...

We hear the wilderness and it hears us.

In that test the model was subjected to a series of simulated earthquakes starting with small amplitudes and then gradually increasing amplitude in successive runs. The frame failed under a simulated ...