Their whole life, producer Hannah Chinn has known about the Big One: a massive earthquake forecasted to hit the West Coast. Scientists say it’ll destroy buildings, collapse bridges, flood coastal towns and permanently shift the landscape.

BERKELEY, Calif. (KGO) -- UC Berkeley has been working for years to build an earthquake warning system on the West Coast. The same kind of system that helped prevent Mexico's 7.2 magnitude earthquake on Friday from landing a bigger punch than it did.

It’s been a full week of earthquakes in California, including a 4.1 near Templeton that triggered an alert for residents. “This week is a bit busy,” Minson said. “But earthquakes are not uniformly spaced out in space and time, so this is all within the normal variation for earthquakes.”

Predicting earthquakes has long been an unattainable fantasy. Factors like odd animal behaviors that have historically been thought to forebode earthquakes are not supported by empirical evidence. As these factors often occur independently of earthquakes and vice versa,

The Pacific Northwest Seismic Network operates more than 600 seismic stations. The center in Alaska added an additional 250 stations, working with NOAA in real time to ensure warnings were accurate and timely.

I was just a kid when 1994’s devastating Northridge earthquake hit, but I still remember waking up to the shaking in the early mo

Fifteen seconds of South Napa earthquake shaking resulted in $442.7 million to $800 million in countywide damages –- depending whom you ask — and a quest for state and federal reimbursements that could take years to complete. The 6.0-magnitude quake at ...