In California, where the next "Big One" is an always-looming threat, some lessons learned from the 1925 Santa Barbara quake ...

The bells of Old Mission Santa Barbara rang out Sunday morning to mark the 100th anniversary of the 1925 earthquake that ...

From old cars, photos, and an earthquake simulator, Santa Barbara residents and visitors got to step into the past and peek ...

Brother Michael Lamm O.F.M., a Franciscan friar, stands on the steps of the earthquake-damaged Mission Santa Barbara. This photo was published in the July 1, 1925, edition of the Los Angeles Times ...

Brother Michael Lamm O.F.M., a Franciscan friar, stands on the steps of the earthquake-damaged Mission Santa Barbara. This photo was published in the July 1, 1925, edition of the Los Angeles Times ...

SANTA BARBARA, Calif. - Old Mission Santa Barbara is a world class destination. "Throughout the world we are known as the ...

In 2018, Sue Hough, a USGS seismologist based in Pasadena, compared the 1925 Santa Barbara earthquake with 1994’s magnitude 6.7 Northridge quake, among others. She concluded that the 1925 event was ...

The morning of June 29, 1925 was one Santa Barbara residents wouldn’t soon forget. In stories from survivors, they remember ...

The Santa Barbara Amateur Radio Club will hold its 92nd annual Field Day on June 28-29, 2025, to test emergency radio ...

Of course, all of these things did happen in Santa Barbara, at 6:42 a.m. on June 29, 1925, when a massive earthquake rattled the region, killing 11 people and decimating the city’s commercial core.