The mother and her newborn slept in the car for three days after the earthquake wrecked their house in this agricultural town 95 miles south of San Francisco.

An earthquake wrecked the city in A.D. 363 and it never recovered.

Unfortunately, the earthquake had overturned and wrecked the cart.

The bureau had moved there in '93 after the earthquake wrecked the sheriff's department building downtown.

IF an earthquake had wrecked the Los Angeles Convention Center last week, there would be no special-effects industry.

Lasting little more than a minute, the earthquake wrecked 490 blocks, toppled a total of 25,000 buildings, broke open gas mains, cut off electric power lines, and effectively destroyed the gold rush capital that had stood there for a half century.