Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Brother Michael Lamm O.F.M., a Franciscan friar, stands on the steps of the earthquake-damaged Mission Santa Barbara. This photo ...

Imagine you’ve arrived for your Monday morning shift down on State Street by the railroad tracks, and you’re looking toward the Pacific Ocean as the 6:40 a.m. sun lights the sky. There appears to be a ...

Press releases are posted on Independent.com as a free community service. Santa Barbara, CA, May 20, 2025 – At 6:44 am on June 29, 1925, a powerful earthquake devastated Santa Barbara, taking the ...

The Hotel Californian in Santa Barbara was severely damaged by the 1925 earthquake. (Edson Smith Photo Collection / Santa Barbara Public Library ) The 1925 Santa Barbara Earthquake is known for the ...

SANTA BARBARA, Calif. - Old Mission Santa Barbara is a world class destination. "Throughout the world we are known as the Queen of the missions because of the setting... the rather grand architecture.

The morning of June 29, 1925 was one Santa Barbara residents wouldn’t soon forget. In stories from survivors, they remember animals acting strange in the middle of the night, heavy rumbling that ...

CHANNEL ISLANDS REGION, Calif. (KEYT) – A 3.2 magnitude earthquake was recorded 16 kilometers due north of Santa Barbara Island in the waters off the coast of California Thursday. The image below, ...

A 2.9 magnitude quake shook close to Santa Barbara Is. on Tuesday afternoon, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The tremor struck at 6:22 p.m. (5:22 p.m. local time), with its epicenter about 20 ...

A 2.1 magnitude quake struck close to Santa Barbara on Tuesday morning, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The tremor shook the area at 9:48 a.m. It occurred above sea level with the epicenter ...

One hundred years ago today, downtown Santa Barbara was devastated by an earthquake centered just offshore. The main commercial district, State Street, was in ruins. Some buildings completely ...

One hundred years ago, on the morning of June 29, 1925, an earthquake measuring between 6.5 and 6.8 on the Richter scale destroyed a great deal of downtown Santa Barbara and killed about a dozen ...