From Caltech, UCR, UCSB & Cal Poly Pomona
When friends and family are freezing in the Northeast, roasting in the South or are drenched in the Pacific Northwest, smug Southern Californians always are ready to talk about the sunny, balmy conditions they live in. But the trade-off, of course, is the prevalence of the Southland's own fearsome array of natural torments, including temblors, earth slides, drought and, yes, even tsunamis. All of these get their due on campuses across the region: In Pasadena on Friday, a geology and geophysics expert will team up with an author to explore the 'human story' of earthquakes, examining faults like the San Andreas and the North Anatolian and a 1999 shaker in Turkey that turned into the backdrop for a best-selling novel. In Riverside, quakes also have the attention of researchers who are touting their mathematical model that they say offers key insight into scheduling and logistics concerns that affect quake relief, critical current issues, of course, in spots like Haiti and Chile. And while international experts also will gather in the Inland Empire to focus on what has been a persistent and still unresolved bane in California -- drought -- the folks over in Pomona are examining a geological study piece that slid into their neighborhood, aka what happens to unstable slopes when they're inundated, as occurred with the San Dimas, road-closing mess. Ah, and just for the record: the walloping Chilean temblor did create ocean turbulence, a tsunami, that was detected in Santa Barbara.
In Pasadena, a program on 'human side' of quakes
In Riverside, a mathematical view of post-quake relief efforts
Drought? It hasn't gone from California, remains a global woe
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