Wayfarers Chapel, a popular spot for weddings and receptions for decades that was damaged during a barrage of winter storms, will be dismantled starting this week.
City officials in West Hollywood want to get ahead of the next massive earthquake that could strike Southern California at any moment.
Dr. Lucy Jones, the world famous and now retired Caltech seismologist, took her wide-ranging knowledge of earthquakes to California's capital in a push for change.
The Inland Empire has hundreds of older, unreinforced masonry buildings that would pose a dangerous risk of collapse in a major earthquake, experts say.
The facade of a building in a strip mall near the California State University, Dominguez Hills campus in Carson collapsed on Tuesday, prompting an emergency response.
Building inspectors in Berkeley say the balcony that snapped off an apartment building and led to the deaths of six students, was supported by wooden beams that had been badly rotted by water damage.