After the most destructive wildfire season ever in 2015, parts of the western U.S., including California, face elevated fire danger again this year, experts say. In a report released earlier this month, the National Interagency Fire Center is predicting conditions that put much of the West, Southwest, Hawaii and Alaska in
Southern California’s section of the San Andreas fault is “locked, loaded and ready to roll,” according to Thomas Jordan, director of the Southern California Earthquake Center. The springs on the San Andreas system have been wound very, very tight, Jordan recently said at the National Earthquake Conference. The last big
Many affluent homeowners are turning to specialty “white glove” movers to handle valuables during a housing move.
California isn’t the only earthquake capital anymore — Oklahoma, mostly associated with weather-related disasters, has joined in. The U.S. Geological Survey labeled places in Oklahoma and Northern California with a 10%-12% chance of experiencing damage from an earthquake in 2016. The 2016 USGS earthquake forecast included both natural and human-induced
Keyless entry, navigation control, and entertainment systems are all computerized and subject to Internet access. Some new cars today have as many as forty wireless access points. That’s why the FBI has recently issued a new warning about the risk of cars and trucks being able to be remotely hacked.
The next mega-earthquake to shake the continental U.S. might not be the San Andreas Fault in California, but from a far more dangerous fault farther north. The Cascadia subduction zone, which runs from Northern California to British Columbia, could deliver a temblor 30 times stronger than the San Andreas. Scientists
If you drive when you’re sad or mad, you have a greater chance of crashing than if you’re tired, according to a new study. Drivers who are emotionally upset increase their risk of crashing by nearly 10 times, researchers from Virginia Tech found. In contrast, driving while fatigued makes a crash
Many Southern Californians are wondering: what happened to El Niño? The torrential rains brought by a conveyor belt of storms has not materialized this winter, but scientists say it’s still coming. El Niño expert Bill Patzert of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory says the squalls are coming a month later than
Applications are still being accepted for homeowners to receive grants of up to $3,000 to earthquake retrofit single-family dwellings in California. Homeowners in certain zip codes can register at earthquakebracebolt.com for the grants. The registration period ends Feb. 20 for the program that is funded by the state and the California
This holiday season thousands of amateur pilots will take the controls of hobby drones. The aerial swooping and swooshing that is sure to follow will likely lead to a few cracked windows and a few bodily injuries. That’s when the liability claims could take off. “Almost no one is thinking
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