Beautiful beaches. Majestic mountains. Hollywood. One more thing Southern California is known for: earthquakes.

Stay on your knees and bend over to protect vital organs.Seismologist warns of increasing earthquake activity in Southern California Hold On: Hold on to your shelter until the shaking stops.

Besides the Southern California metro area and the San Francisco ... with flimsy supports that can collapse in the side-to-side shaking of an earthquake. Why apartments can collapse in an earthquake.

businesses and schools throughout Southern California stopped everything for a minute Thursday to "drop, cover and hold on" during a statewide earthquake preparedness drill, now in its 16th year.

LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- Living in Southern California, it may frequently cross your mind: when will the next big earthquake hit? "We're afraid of earthquakes because they're sudden, we can't predict ...

More recently, the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake (magnitude 6.9) in Northern California caused 63 deaths and approximately $6 billion in damages. In Southern California, the 1994 Northridge ...

While the San Andreas is the most famous, scientists know it’s not the only fault that can produce a powerful earthquake in Southern California. “Magnitude-7s are very possible in this region ...