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 ...

SANTA BARBARA, Calif. — There are conflicting death tolls from the 1925 earthquake. Most sources online state there were "13 deaths." However, Santa Barbara historian and local “Ambassador” Neal ...

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 ...

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.

Santa Barbara history buff Betsy J. Green is the author of Way Back When: Santa Barbara in 1925, which showcases a number of firsthand reports from earthquake survivors. As slides of the resulting ...

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 ...

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 ...

Local historian and author Betsy J. Green will present a free talk titled The Great Santa Barbara Earthquake – The Survivors Speak at the Santa Barbara County Genealogical Society’s monthly meeting, 9 ...

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 ...