EARTHQUAKE PREP: We live in a higher risk area; the best time to prepare is now
California has endured more than its fair share of destructive earthquakes in the last few decades—among them Sylmar in 1971, Whittier Narrows in 1987, Loma Prieta in 1989 and Northridge in 1994.
All those quakes caused major damage and resulted in loss of life. But they were not true seismic catastrophes, according to the experts. Much bigger quakes are possible, more to the scale of the infamous