As a Californian, my life has been punctuated by earthquakes. My earliest temblor memory is the 1971 Sylmar quake. On that auspicious day I began my first job as a high school graduate. In the 1994 Northridge earthquake, my mother lost the house I grew up
Created for the ten-year anniversary of the Loma Prieta earthquake of 1989, Life Along the Faultline offers earthquake science, advances in structural engineering, personal perspectives, and a look back to the great San Francisco shake of 1906.
The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) is in charge of helping people before and after a disaster.
"We only hear about earthquakes in the news every once in a while, but they are actually an everyday occurrence on our planet.
PBS brings science to life with the use of Flash animations and QuickTime video to explain the how and why of earthquakes.