Crosstown Real estate across Los Angeles County has been on a tear with the assessed value of residential property rising But those gains are not distributed equally and an examination of publicly available data reveals some surprises as to which areas have seen values spike The hottest real estate market in all of Los Angeles County a residential neighborhood hugging the 10 freeway in central Los Angeles values have increased by only a third of that amount Mapping the uneven gains in real estate values across the county offers a view into where property wealth has been generated and where it has just kept pace Real estate investors make hefty bets on neighborhoods they believe are about to pop And places that record sudden gains also often see other changes as well such as displacement of long-time renters and businesses Crosstown analyzed the tax values of residential properties between 2016 and 2024 from the Los Angeles County Assessor to determine where real estate prices have risen the most and the least The list of 265 different communities across the county’s 4,000 square miles shows a wide variation though even the laggards performed well—157 of those communities registered a boost of 50% or more (Scroll down for an explanation of our methodology Scroll down further to see where your community ranks.)  West Adams’s meteoric rise places it at No Want to know how much property values in your Los Angeles neighborhood have changed? Sign up for the Crosstown Neighborhood Newsletter and get essential stats about where you live. probate specialist Demetrius Green is hoping his client isn’t too late to cash in on the steep run-up in home prices in West Adams The front yard of the three-bedroom house he is showing to prospective buyers is covered by a layer of chipped concrete scuffed floors and a bare-bones kitchen indicate that it’s in dire need of a remodel very popular over the past three to four years,” said Green “Investors looking to maximize their profits look for an area that has pretty much been stagnant.” Timing is everything in real estate investing While values in West Adams spiked more than anywhere else over the past eight years other neighborhoods have had similar jumps in previous periods Residents of Eastside neighborhoods such as Silver Lake Eagle Rock and Highland Park can recite how values began soaring in the 1990s and early 2000s meaning that homes today go for three or four times what they did a few decades ago When once working-class or even marginal communities transform into desirable destinations values rise and seven-figure sales become the norm Buyers and investors then start looking for more affordable options elsewhere The dramatic shift presents a familiar socioeconomic challenge: Homeowners in the neighborhood see their wealth rise including families who have lived in the area for generations Jimmy “J.T.” Recinos has run the Jimbo Times an online archive covering the housing crisis in Central L.A. He says South Los Angeles has typically been a place people move to in search of more affordable housing “Market-rate housing is coming in at a time when we could use far more extremely low-income housing “I’ve seen the way that families have just left the neighborhood all together.” the situation is particularly dire due to zoning restrictions that make it difficult to build high labor costs and other factors that further constrain housing supply The city of Los Angeles has set a goal of adding 456,643 new housing units this decade. It’s nowhere close to meeting that goal. Last year, it permitted only 7,038 new apartment units (the lowest number in a decade) and 1,545 new single-family homes Shane Phillips is a researcher and policy analyst at the UCLA Lewis Center for Regional Policy Studies and the author of “Affordable City,” which offers a blueprint for cities to ramp up supply without displacing tenants He notes that in his neighborhood of Lincoln Heights while the median price for a home there is around $700,000 “Existing housing is not affordable to the people who live here now,” he said which place heavy restrictions on where big housing projects can be built Apartment blocks can only be erected in a small number of neighborhoods in Los Angeles which are often already filled with low-income renters ‘We want you to build housing where it is most likely to displace poor renters,’ and that is the policy that we have in Los Angeles,” Phillips said very few of the region’s swankiest communities registered high on the list has the highest home values per resident of any place in the county But on the list of biggest percent change increase over the past eight years home prices in wealthy areas were already sky high which means they often have less room to rise homes that sold for $700,000 a few years ago may be considered within range of more buyers a historically Black neighborhood in central Los Angeles was considered one of the few remaining affordable neighborhoods in the city There are a number of Los Angeles communities that have not seen meaningful property value growth in some time The average assessed value of residential properties in all three areas is still below $200,000 How we did it: In order to come up with our rankings, Crosstown compiled the assessed tax value of every residential unit over the past eight years from the Los Angeles County Office of the Assessor We then separated out those units into 273 different communities but also 114 different neighborhoods within the city of Los Angeles We divided the total assessed value of each community by the number of residential units allowing us to account for multi-unit properties That allowed us to compare the change in average assessed value between 2016 and 2024 Our calculations are based on tax assessments of the properties That’s different from the price a property might fetch if it were listed for sale today The assessed value of a property increases only slightly each year unless an event triggers a new assessment our method allows us to zero in on the communities which have seen the most real-estate activity and the steepest increases Have questions about our data? Just write to us at askus@xtown.la  Below is the of list of the change in assessed value of residential property in 265 communities in Los Angeles County April 28, 2025 | melanie johnson Life moves at a bit of a slower pace these days for Congresswoman Grace Napolitano Napolitano once spent her days in meetings and hearings But after nearly four decades in public office the veteran lawmaker opted to not seek reelection and 2024 and retire in January “I am enjoying sleeping in and not having to travel,” Napolitano said “I have never not had a job since I was 12 Napolitano was known for fierce advocate her constituents and the communities she served That was especially evident in her longtime support of education and Cal Poly Pomona For her commitment to Cal Poly Pomona and dedication to service, Napolitano will receive the Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters at Commencement on May 18. She will be honored and speak at the College of Letters, Arts and Social Sciences ceremony at 8 a.m who moved to Norwalk from Texas in the 1950s with her late husband getting involved in her community was second nature The mother of five served on Norwalk’s Sister City Commission for almost two decades before deciding to run for Norwalk City Council in 1986 “Some city commissioners got together and voiced their opinions that they felt the city wasn’t doing well and needed change,” she said and families didn’t feel safe to go to the parks There also was a fuel tank farm in the city that needed to be moved People spoke out about it and wanted to be engaged.” That prompted Napolitano’s run for city council where she was the first Latina councilwoman and the first candidate to defeat an incumbent Napolitano’s fellow council members selected her to serve as mayor in 1989 She subsequently ran for the state assembly in 1992 Napolitano narrowly defeated James “Jamie” Casso the son-in-law of her predecessor in the House of Representatives who announced his retirement just days before the filing deadline Her 31st district includes the cities and communities of El Monte Her district previously included a portion of Pomona and Cal Poly Pomona but she lost it due to redistricting in 2020 Portions of her district are adjacent to the university and the congresswoman has been an advocate and supporter of the of CPP during her time in office Salud Carbajal to help secure $55 million over the last five years to enable CPP to advance the university’s educational partnership agreement with the Air Force Research Lab the College of Engineering named a research facility after her to honor the congresswoman for her help to secure federal funding for the tunnels Some of the funds also were used for research Napolitano said she was very thankful for the opportunity to advocate for the university and assist where she could adding that she plans to try and stay involved “I am humbled and honored by it,” she said of the honorary doctorate “I don’t know that I deserve it other than doing my job I am very grateful to President Soraya Coley and the nominating committee.” “Congresswoman Napolitano’s fierce advocacy and belief in our community helped shape lives and transform futures,” said President Soraya M “Her dedication to uplifting student’s and providing avenues for lifelong success transformed our institution equity and hope that will endure for generations.”  Napolitano is known for her work in mental health creating a pilot program in 2001 to provide mental health and suicide prevention services on-site at four schools that later expanded to 35 K-12 campuses in the San Gabriel Valley and Southeast Los Angeles County She founded and co-chaired the Congressional Mental Health Caucus Napolitano also pushed for California to receive more than $26 billion to fix damaged roads with $450 million of that funding per year going to benefit Foothill Transit as well as to alleviate congestion and other related issues It's been a fortuitous unexpected but also successful and rewarding journey for Napolitano who once worked as a secretary at Ford Motor Co. took night classes at LA Trade Tech College while also raising a family She said she has enjoyed being an advocate for people and bringing funds to her district to be used where needed A simple philosophy guided her during her nearly 40-year political career “Keep your priorities straight,” she said “Stick to your values and don’t waver.” CPP News is managed by the Department of Strategic Communications. Back in 2017, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors voted to use the flood control systems along the San Gabriel and Rio Hondo watersheds to create a network of community greenways. An environmental study published by the Los Angeles County Department of Public Works marks a key step in that effort.  which covers approximately 140 linear miles of waterways within the San Gabriel Valley would help to establish design standards and facilitate agreements with partner agencies to help expedite projects within the plan area The main aim of the project is an overall greenway path making use of unused or underutilized right-of-way within flood control channels while also providing space for new pocket parks Waterways included in this plan area are:  the study notes that early assessments have identified 64 potential parks or green spaces within the project area - the largest of which could be up to 25 acres on a site near the Pomona Fairgrounds the study notes that new bridges and crossings - some up to 400 feet in length - would be required to pass over intersections The study also lists 10 conceptual example projects but represent the type of improvements being contemplated As the environmental report evaluates improvements to a large area rather than any individual project a precise timeline for construction and implementation is not estimated Find out more about the San Gabriel Valley Greenway Network Strategic Implementation Plan here. Twitter / Facebook / LinkedIn / Threads / Instagram / Bluesky La Puente Valley is a region of eastern Los Angeles County originally inhabited by Gabrielino Indians until 1769 when Spanish soldier and explorer Don Gaspar de Portola and his expedition arrived in the area Portola named the region “Llana de la Puente” – meaning “Plain of the Bridge” – after making a bridge of poles so his party could cross San Jose Creek Two years later the San Gabriel Mission was established as the first European settlement and abundant Native American population for a labor force the mission soon became the richest in California Following Mexico’s 1822 independence from Spain the San Gabriel and other missions were secularized starting in the 1830s their properties sold or given away by a Mexican government eager to profit from the missions’ wealth Drawn to California by such a splendid opportunity to acquire land friends and business partners John Rowland and William Workman led a wagon train of settlers west from Taos Within months they had petitioned for and received preliminary title – finalized in 1845 – to the Rancho La Puente a 48,790-acre tract that formerly belonged to the San Gabriel Mission The ranch extended from the hills of what is now Hacienda Heights to San Bernardino Road in Covina and from the San Gabriel River to Walnut and Pomona; and it encompassed what is now Baldwin Park Rowland and Workman built adobe homes and established a thriving agricultural community engaged in ranching and farming In 1851 they divided their property roughly in half but following their deaths in the 1870s their respective parcels were bought and subdivided by developers who then started communities that included La Puente and Hacienda Heights La Puente Valley attracted numerous settlers during the 1840s with the Gold Rush and again in the 1870s with railroad lines By the early twentieth century the region was known for its abundance of citrus and maintained its agricultural character – mixed with growing industrial development of oil and communications – through the middle of the twentieth century the region underwent a building boom that eventually edged out crops in favor of development Though originally inhabited by Gabrielino Indians Europeans first made their mark on the area when La Puente Valley was claimed by the Spanish government starting with the 1771 founding of the San Gabriel Mission the mission became the wealthiest in the state of California Following Mexico’s independence from Spain in 1822 Mexico during the 1820s and 1830s secularized the missions and gave away or sold their properties John Rowland and William Workman were among the early European settlers drawn to California by such an enticing opportunity for land they arrived with a wagon train of settlers from New Mexico; traveling well over a thousand miles through desert and mountain terrain to reach their new home Rowland and Workman applied for a land grant from Governor Juan B Alvarado at Monterey-then the state capital-and obtained title to the nearly 49,000-acre Rancho La Puente for only $1,000 in gold and a pledge to hire the local Native Americans Rancho La Puente prospered and by 1850 was practically self-sufficient Though the two men split the property in 1851 they continued working the land successfully with grist mills Rowland’s property was divided among heirs following his natural death in 1873 while Workman’s was relinquished to a creditor following failure of a bank he helped found-a tragedy which led him to commit suicide in 1876 Though their properties were later subdivided and developed as towns and cities the valley remained mostly agricultural through the mid-1900s in the early twentieth century the Valley was also the site of considerable industrial development in the oil The agricultural legacy of La Puente Valley and especially of Hacienda Heights goes back at least as far as the 1771 Spanish settlement of the San Gabriel Mission whose land was used for ranching and grazing purposes After John Rowland and William Workman arrived in 1841 and started working the nearly 49,000-acre Rancho La Puente they began what soon became a self-sufficient agricultural enterprise of raising cattle and sheep and cultivating grapes and fruits for brandies and especially for wines for which both men were renowned (Rowland was the first large-scale commercial wine manufacturer in California) with Rowland receiving about 29,000 acres on the eastern half and Workman getting the remaining westerly 20,000 acres but both men continued their agricultural pursuits Rowland was able to keep his property financially afloat despite ravaging droughts of the 1860s and following his 1873 death his heirs held out on selling his property en masse preserving much of it as open space as late as the second half of the twentieth century Workman’s property met a sadder fate as he forfeited almost his entire estate following the 1875 failure of the Temple-Workman bank he founded with his son-in-law the collapse of which caused him to kill himself the following year by the time of their deaths both men had established an agricultural legacy that continued for decades cattle and sheep ranching gave way to avocado and walnut groves and citrus trees laden with lemons Growers in North Whittier Heights – the predecessor community to Hacienda Heights – started the North Whittier Heights Citrus Association and opened a packing plant near Ninth and Clark avenues around which grew a settlement called Hillgrove Hacienda Heights’ flatlands were among the best walnut-producing areas of the state La Puente also became known for its fruit and walnut groves it was the site of the world’s then-largest walnut-packing plant and over-population spurred by a post-World-War-II building and population boom proved to be the triple undoing of the valley’s agricultural character and industrial development replaced agriculture in the valley Though railroad line building in the late 1800s was inextricably linked to development of western states it met with opposition from a number of ranchers who were worried that trains would mark the end of a need for horses and a demand for hay and barley the fathers of post-mission settlement in La Puente Valley who in the 1840s received title to the 49,000-acre Rancho La Puente did not want to give the Southern Pacific Railroad a hundred-foot wide right-of-way between the San Gabriel River and Spadra saying that it was unnecessary and would be bothersome They were later persuaded to change their minds and did allow the railroad to be built across their property in the 1870s Five years later the Santa Fe Railway started a competing line which led to fare wars and brought settlers to the area by the thousands Los Angeles & Salt Lake Railway-later called the Union Pacific-was also built through the Valley During the region’s agricultural heyday through the mid-twentieth century La Puente Valley was agricultural in character until the mid-twentieth century Cattle and sheep ranching were common on Spanish missions being established starting in the 1770s and through the 1800s with the arrival of thousands of settlers attracted by the prospect of free or cheap land being offered by the Mexican government after it secularized the missions But the agricultural character of the valley gave way to development starting in the 1950s as a post-war population and building boom necessitated the building of housing on a massive scale and eventually replaced avocados John Rowland and William Workman were friends and business partners who led a wagon train of settlers across more than a thousand miles of desert and mountain terrain from New Mexico to Southern California arriving in La Puente Valley in November of 1841 They were among the first settlers to obtain a land grant from the Mexican government for properties being given away or sold at bargain prices as part of the secularization of Spanish missions Their arrival in the valley was a watershed event for they were the first white men to obtain title to the 48,790-acre Rancho La Puente and to develop it as Anglos into a thriving agricultural enterprise though there is some uncertainty about his birthplace: various sources state either Maryland or Pennsylvania Rowland moved to Boston and became a United States surveyor There he met a group of fur trappers and headed west ultimately finding employment with the American Fur Company in Taos who was born in England but came to America and gravitated to Taos where he ran a general store and grist mill Though the two men’s temperaments represented a study in contrasts they both possessed excellent leadership qualities and good judgment and became friends and business partners for life Rowland and Workman traveled west from Taos leading a group of several dozen other settlers from Missouri and New Mexico in what was the first officially-documented immigrant wagon train comprised of people interested in new homes Workman and Rowland took turns riding at the head of the group accompanied by their alert collie watchdog The group traveled along the Rio Grande down the Chihuahua Trail then to the Gila River and the Colorado River by way of Yuma They took a roundabout route to avoid hostile Indians and only had one unpleasant encounter when the Indians tried to steal their horses and livestock Both men were long used to Mexican customs having lived for years in New Mexico and being married to Mexican women and not long after assuring California authorities that they would assimilate well into the new territory they found out that a vast parcel of land named Rancho La Puente had not yet been allotted Rowland applied on behalf of himself and Workman to Governor Juan B Alvarado for the 48,790-acre land grant of the ranch one of twenty-two ranches that had belonged to the San Gabriel Mission Rowland and Workman had several factors on their side including letters of recommendation from Padre Tomas Estenaga of the San Gabriel Mission and the Prefect of the Second District of California; their pledges to become Mexican citizens; their promise to hire local Native Americans; and their willingness to pay a thousand dollars in gold for taxes and assessments Governor Alvarado gave them preliminary title to the land (It would be three more years before they would receive permanent title from Governor Pio Pico.) By the end of 1842 additional settlers from New Mexico had arrived to become part of the new ranching enterprise When it came to the business of running Rancho La Puente They built stately adobe houses on the banks of San Jose Creek and soon established a successful ranching and farming operation grew wheat and processed it on-site at grist mills with Rowland taking about 29,000 acres on the east and Workman receiving the 20,000 acres on the west Their land division was officially sanctioned only in 1867 following a circuitous route through the legal system They continued to work their land successfully and showed particular prowess as winemakers; Rowland became the state’s first large-scale commercial wine manufacturer and Workman’s wine was shipped as far away as Boston Both even survived a devastating drought during the 1860s that decimated much of their cattle herd Their luck diverged near the end of their lives Rowland’s finances remained intact until his death in 1873 at which time his estate was bequeathed to his next of kin had decided to start a bank in 1868 with his son-in-law After the bank failed during the Panic of 1875 Workman-who had put up nearly all of his 20,000 acres as collateral-lost the property to Elias J Workman took his own life the following year Workman and Temple Family Homestead Museum Hacienda Heights is an unincorporated community of more than 40,000 people located on about eleven square miles in eastern Los Angeles County in the San Gabriel Valley The community was built on property that was originally part of the nearly 49,000-acre Rancho La Puente to which John Rowland and William Workman obtained title after arriving in La Puente Valley in 1841 Workman lost his half of the property in 1875 to lender Elias J “Lucky” Baldwin after a bank Workman had founded went bankrupt and he had to forfeit his property as collateral the Southern Pacific and Santa Fe railroads built lines through the region that opened it up for development and attracted settlers and Baldwin began subdividing his property sold 1,826 acres to Edwin Hart and Jed Torrance who subdivided the land for agricultural use and named the community North Whittier Heights The area soon became renowned for its citrus Like so many Southern California communities it was transformed after World War II from a quiet agricultural community to a large residential suburb North Whittier Heights successfully petitioned to change its name to Hacienda Heights and shortly afterward drafted a master plan for its development Hacienda Heights has held several unsuccessful elections to incorporate as a city that have failed for a variety of reasons among them the opinion that its sales tax base is too small and that it is simply a bedroom community for the nearby City of Industry the community has experienced several major cultural changes including the 1988 completion of the Hsi Lai Temple the nation’s largest Buddhist temple that has attracted a large Chinese population vestiges of Hacienda Heights’ early history remain as some of the original homes from Rancho La Puente still stand on a 92-acre tract of land between Gale Avenue and Valley Boulevard Other homes of early settlers are sprinkled around or near Hacienda Heights some of them the dwellings of descendants of Rowland and Workman Before the arrival of Spanish explorers in the region in 1769 the La Puente Valley was inhabited by Gabrielinos who named the area “Awig-na,” meaning “Abiding Place.” Gabrielinos were and most populous Native group prior to California’s habitation by European settlers The territory they inhabited in Southern California was vast and included the Los Angeles basin; Los Angeles and Santa Monica river watersheds and those of several smaller creeks; the coastal area between Aliso and Topanga creeks; and San Clemente They were named for the San Gabriel Mission established in 1771 in what had been their territory After Spanish explorers and missionaries established the missions they put the Gabrielinos to work as laborers the arrangement was far from amicable in the long run as the Native populations had many violent confrontations with the Anglo settlers and also saw their populations drop dramatically because of dietary problems and disease Gabrielino Tongva Springs Foundation Los Angeles Original Peoples The city of La Puente grew out of John Rowland’s half of the original 49,000-acre Rancho La Puente Pomeroy bought 20 acres from Rowland’s son and the next year they began laying out the township of La Puente during the peak of Southern California’s building boom and the community’s first church were the first three buildings to be constructed in the new downtown The town survived major fires in 1897 and 1923 and evolved as a prosperous agricultural community during the first half of the twentieth century During the 1930s it was especially renowned for its fruit and walnut groves even boasting the world’s largest walnut-packing plant Like other Southern California communities its groves gave way to development after World War II and today La Puente – which means “The Bridge” – is a mostly residential community of more than 41,200 residents City of La Puente – History The school system of La Puente Valley dates back to 1887 when the Hudson School District was formed; 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While deaths continue to mount, the county reported only 239 new cases of the virus, the lowest number since March 26. California Newsom has issued a stay-at-home order and all nonessential businesses are closed due to the coronavirus outbreak So what does it look like outside — from above Health officials on Monday confirmed 25 new coronavirus-linked deaths bringing the county’s total number of fatalities to 320 and marking an increase in the mortality rate in Southern California as city and county leaders continued to warn against prematurely ending shelter-in-place orders Here is the list of California communities with coronavirus cases: Colleen Shalby is a reporter for the Los Angeles Times. She has covered education, the pandemic, the vaccine rollout and breaking news throughout California. She was part of the team that was a 2020 Pulitzer Prize finalist for coverage of a dive-boat fire off the Santa Barbara coast. Shalby grew up in Southern California and graduated from George Washington University. She previously worked for PBS NewsHour and joined The Times in 2015. World & Nation Subscribe for unlimited accessSite Map Print Los Angeles County health officials on Wednesday confirmed 29 additional coronavirus-linked deaths — the biggest daily jump of the pandemic — bringing the county’s death toll to 198 as the number of people testing positive surpassed 7,500 The number of people testing positive for the illness has reached 7,530 marking a stark increase of 1,170 new cases over the course of two days The rise in deaths Wednesday pushed the virus’ mortality rate in the county to 2.6% Public Health Director Barbara Ferrer said Of those those who have most recently died seven were between 41 and 65 years old and one person was between 18 and 40 years old Details about four other deaths were not immediately known At least 22 of those who died had underlying health conditions The total case count includes individuals who have recovered the county does not have a method to identify them Here are the confirmed cases in L.A. County communities. For the latest, go to The Times coronavirus tracker. Officials said there were 15 new coronavirus-linked deaths, bringing the county’s total to 147. Twelve of the people who died were older than 65, and seven of them had underlying health conditions. The three others were between 41 and 65. but stay-at-home orders have given new purpose to caution tape who urged residents to stay indoors this week and avoid shopping The effort to test as many residents as possible continues across the county About 52,000 people have been tested for COVID-19 in L.A officials said — a number that accounts for 40% of all tests administered in California Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti said Monday evening that any Los Angeles County resident who has symptoms and wants to be tested for the coronavirus can now apply online. Testing was previously limited to vulnerable populations Here is the latest list of communities with coronavirus cases. Check out The Times tracker for the latest. The county confirmed 13 new coronavirus-related deaths Thursday, bringing the toll to 78. Twelve of the victims were older than 65, and all but one of them had underlying health conditions, said Barbara Ferrer, director of the L.A. County Department of Public Health. The other person who died was between ages 41 and 65 and also had underlying health conditions, she said. These are some of the unusual new scenes across the Southland during the coronavirus outbreak Los Angeles County officials also announced 534 new COVID-19 cases There were more than 4,000 confirmed cases overall in L.A The daily count increased by more than 1,000 in 48 hours Here is a list of coronavirus cases by community. For the latest information, go to The Times coronavirus tracker. Luke Money is an assistant editor on the Fast Break Desk, the Los Angeles Times’ breaking news team. He joined the newsroom as a reporter in 2020, specializing in breaking news and coverage of the COVID-19 pandemic. He previously was a reporter and assistant city editor for the Daily Pilot and before that covered education, politics and government for the Santa Clarita Valley Signal. He earned his bachelor’s degree in journalism from the University of Arizona. It goes without saying that the coronavirus pandemic sparked a wave of uncertainty across myriad industries and no other market has quite felt its impact like that of real estate The pandemic became a driving force behind the continued real estate boom with high demand for vacation homes and a limited supply of housing that prompted buyers and investors to bid up prices for affordable properties increasing mortgage rates have slowed growth with prices even declining in some places But some areas are still seeing price jumps compared to the year before Stacker compiled a list of cities with the fastest-growing home prices in the Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA metro area using data from Zillow Cities are ranked by 1-year price change as of May 2023 The typical home value in the United States increased over the last year by 0.9% to $346,856 Data was available for 152 cities and towns in Los Angeles How many hours have you been exposed to the high levels of particulate matter in your neighborhood Have questions about our data? We map the areas against library of region boundaries created by The Los Angeles Times Print 1 Southern California was recently rattled by several small earthquakes They produced minor shaking but nonetheless left psychological aftershocks in a region whose seismic vulnerabilities are matched by our willingness to put the dangers out of our minds it all added to one question: Is this the beginning of something bigger Having half a dozen earthquakes with a magnitude over 2.5 in a week hitting three distinct parts of Southern California But experts say these smaller quakes have no predictive power over the next major, destructive earthquake in urban Southern California, the last of which came 30 years ago. An upgrade to California’s earthquake early-warning system using GPS data will allow more timely alerts about shaking and better estimate the magnitude of a megaquake there is a 1 in 20 chance any earthquake in California will be followed by one that’s larger larger quake would occur in the same area within a week the odds are a new temblor would be only a little bigger Still, the recent quakes are a reminder that Southern California is uniquely and deeply vulnerable to earthquakes directly under us. The risk is by no means limited to the region’s most famous fault, the southern San Andreas, which apart from running under San Bernardino and Palmdale is mostly beneath remote deserts and mountains but is capable of a magnitude 8 quake last week’s earthquakes highlighted nearby fault systems directly under our most populated cities and could produce even worse death tolls than a San Andreas megaquake targeting our oldest neighborhoods with many unretrofitted buildings when they rupture “All three sets of these earthquakes occurred near large potentially dangerous faults,” said James Dolan urban fault network has been in a seismic lull for the entire historic period and this lull likely extends back on the order of the last 1,000 years We know at some point this lull we’re in will end.” While some cities and government agencies have taken impressive steps to protect infrastructure, such as ordering retrofits of older buildings pushing off seismic vulnerabilities that eventually will come to light Here’s a look at some of the major fault systems near the recent earthquakes that often are overshadowed by the region’s more famous faults: A magnitude 7.5 quake on the Puente Hills fault — which runs under highly populated areas of L.A. and Orange counties — could kill 3,000 to 18,000 people, according to the USGS and Southern California Earthquake Center That’s worse than the hypothetical death toll of 1,800 people from a plausible magnitude 7.8 earthquake that begins on the southern San Andreas fault near the Mexican border and unzips all the way to the mountains of L.A located in about the worst possible place you could imagine for a fault beneath L.A.,” Dolan said The Puente Hills thrust fault was discovered only recently — in 1999 — by John Shaw of Harvard University and Peter Shearer of Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego, who concluded that the 1987 Whittier Narrows quake The Puente Hills thrust fault is particularly worrisome when it ruptures in its entirety because of what’s on top of it — downtown Los Angeles, which has many old and unretrofitted buildings, as well as broad swaths of southeast L.A the San Gabriel Valley and northern Orange County The fault is like an angled ramp deep underground — deepest along the 210 Freeway corridor This orientation is particularly bad if the entire fault ruptures because the shaking would commonly begin at the deepest end and move to the shallowest — meaning the shaking energy would likely move from the suburbs of the foothills toward downtown It’s going to end up at the top of the ramp,” Dolan said The shaking also will arrive at the edge of the Los Angeles Basin, a 6-mile-deep, bathtub-shaped hole in the underlying bedrock filled with weak sand and gravel eroded from the mountains and forming the flat land where millions of people live. The area stretches from Beverly Hills through southeast L.A. County and into northern Orange County. When earthquake energy is sent into these sedimentary basins, Dolan said, it amplifies the intensity of the shaking — perhaps 10 times worse than if someone were on bedrock — and also causes shaking to resonate like a bowl of Jell-O, extending the duration. “So the Puente Hills thrust is both, in terms of its location and its geometry, a particularly dangerous fault for Los Angeles,” Dolan said. There is one silver lining: Unlike the San Andreas fault, which generates a big earthquake on average every 100 years or so, the Puente Hills thrust fault generates big quakes only every couple of thousand years, Dolan said. Unshaken The guide to earthquake readiness and resilience that you’ll actually use Last week’s Newport Beach-Costa Mesa earthquakes were close to two fault systems but there is now evidence not only that it exists “It’s produced six earthquakes over the past 12,000 years or so,” Dolan said “These earthquakes were all in excess of magnitude 7.” A major concern when the Compton thrust fault ruptures is that the center of the L.A Basin would be pushed up and to the southwest which runs from the mountains to the ocean would start running backward around where the fault lifted the land “If you uplift the downstream part of the L.A River by 5 feet in one of these Compton blind thrust earthquakes the river is going to flow backward,” Dolan said So will every other plumbing system that uses gravity When major quakes occur on either the Puente Hills or Compton thrust faults, swaths of land will suddenly be jutted skyward, and that lift will create a trail of destruction perhaps 100 feet wide and 30 miles long. A similar zone of destruction — resulting in what is known as a “fold scarp” — was observed after the magnitude 7.7 earthquake that struck Taiwan in 1999 “Think about what happens to every single building and every piece of infrastructure that’s built across that 30-mile length where things are going to be tilted several degrees permanently,” Dolan said “Every single building that is built across that is going to have to be torn down.” The Newport Beach-Costa Mesa quakes also occurred near the Newport-Inglewood fault, which caused the 1933 Long Beach earthquake. A magnitude 4.1 earthquake struck at 5:17 a.m Monday near an active swarm of smaller quakes that began Saturday A separate swarm of quakes occurred a week ago Both quakes occurred along the Transverse Range thrust fault system — what Dolan describes as “an extremely complex system of numerous large east-west trending faults” that built the mountains in the area. The system begins at the Cajon Pass and extends west through the San Gabriel Mountains, the Santa Monica Mountains, the Topatopa Mountains and the Santa Ynez Mountains all the way to Point Conception, west of Santa Barbara. The Channel Islands are the tops of mountain ranges that are mostly underwater now but were built by large thrust faults across the Transverse Range system. About 10 years ago, San Diego State professor Tom Rockwell and his colleagues made a notable discovery: Around 900 years ago, a major earthquake on the Transverse Range system uplifted the beach around Pitas Point — between Ventura and Santa Barbara — almost 30 feet. That kind of action can be explained only by “very large magnitude earthquakes, typically well in excess of magnitude 7.5 and possibly in excess of magnitude 8,” Dolan said. And it wasn’t the Ventura-Pitas Point fault alone that could’ve done that; that fault was too small. The only way to explain such vast displacement is the linking of other faults “to generate earthquakes that would be much larger than if they ruptured just by themselves,” Dolan said. Lifestyle Earthquakes are a way of life if you live in Los Angeles But what about when you never feel them — even as your Shake Alert is blaring and your friends are buzzing about the temblor Southern California’s beauty is also shaped by the same seismic forces that generate earthquakes with its odd bend north of the Los Angeles area and the movement of the Pacific plate relative to the North American plate forced the creation of numerous east-west mountain ridges Earthquake faults also help explain why L.A is where it is today — one of the largest cities in the world not centered on a navigable waterway In the oldest part of Los Angeles, there used to be a source of freshwater just above the old pueblo. Its location, Dolan said, was caused by the Hollywood fault, which forced groundwater otherwise hidden to flow up and over a bedrock ridge, a key perennial source of fresh water. Quakes helped position L.A. where it is today, but they also threaten its future. And each of the three thrust fault systems near last week’s earthquakes will certainly rupture again. Seismic lulls like the one we’re currently enjoying tend to “end with clusters of large-magnitude quakes,” Dolan said. “We know these big faults have generated very large earthquakes in the past, and will do so again in the future,” he said. “These little earthquakes we’ve been having near these big urban faults serve as a useful reminder that we need to prepare ourselves for the inevitable future seismic storm, the likes of which hasn’t occurred in L.A. in at least a thousand years.” Rong-Gong Lin II is a Metro reporter based in San Francisco who specializes in covering statewide earthquake safety issues and the COVID-19 pandemic. The Bay Area native is a graduate of UC Berkeley and started at the Los Angeles Times in 2004. Julius Miller is an editorial assistant at the Los Angeles Times. Previously, he worked as an associate editor and staff writer for Los Angeles Magazine. When he’s not aiding the newsroom, he’s spinning vinyl records or hanging out with his cat, Dali. Sean Greene is an assistant data and graphics editor, focused on visual storytelling at the Los Angeles Times. Climate & Environment KTLA Eight men and two women accused of conspiring to tie up and beat a Moreno Valley family during an armed home-invasion robbery earlier this year have been arrested The 10 with alleged gang ties were taken into custody early Thursday morning as multiple SWAT teams descended on several locations across Southern California following a three-month investigation into the May 22 incident, the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department said in a news release A group of robbers suited up in tactical gear and ballistic vests had been lying in wait near the home on the 14000 block of Alba Way while their associates conducted surveillance on the residence A mother who lives there came home from her morning plans to be met by four individuals armed with an assault rifle and three handguns The woman was forced to unlock and open her front door allowing the robbers to storm the home with her husband and children inside according to the Sheriff’s Department Detectives say the family was attacked and beaten while their hands were bound behind their backs The victims were treated for minor injuries Investigators describe the process of identifying the suspects as “complex and lengthy.” They say they were able to use surveillance cameras stationed across the city of Moreno Valley Officials subsequently obtained $1 million arrest warrants for the 10 suspects three SWAT crews and other law enforcement teams executed the warrants simultaneously at 11 locations across Los Angeles and Riverside counties Evidence seized upon searches of the residences involved included ballistic vests 100 pounds of processed pot and 1,000 marijuana plants Detectives say they also found some property and documents from the home invasion victims Officials identified the following people arrested on suspicion of kidnapping to commit robbery Editor’s note: Because of an error made by the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department a previous version of this story included photos of two men not involved in the case The story has been updated with the correct suspect photos and the Sheriff’s Department has updated its news release Δdocument.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value"