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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 ...
SANTA BARBARA, Calif. - Old Mission Santa Barbara is a world class destination. "Throughout the world we are known as the ...
The morning of June 29, 1925 was one Santa Barbara residents wouldn’t soon forget. In stories from survivors, they remember ...
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.
“With genealogy, we’re really big on family history and those stories,” said the society’s outreach coordinator Holly Snyder, ...
Santa Barbara Summer Solstice Parade will feature 20 floats made possible by countless volunteers and artists.
Tsunamis pose a risk to the entirety of the California coast. But should a major one strike, how bad could it be?
Twenty-seven people were killed in a violent earthquake that partly destroyed Santa Barbara this morning, according to work received by Southern Pacific headquarters here. The principal buildings on ...
La Loma Adobe was built the year after George Washington accepted surrender from Cornwallis in the Revolutionary War.