[BenLurkin]

When the "Big One" hits on the San Andreas fault, it will produce shaking and damage equivalent to that at the epicenter of the Northridge quake -- across all of Southern California.

[Windflier]

This will only make sense to other native Angelenos, but I was in Louisiana on the day of the Northridge quake, and was pissed that I missed it.

[dfwgator]

Maybe if they did more fracking there, it would create smaller earthquakes to relieve the pressure, so that “The Big One” won’t be quite so big.

[freedumb2003]

3 miles from the epicenter.

What people don’t realize is the SOUND!

It was like being inside a jackhammer.

Unforgettable and a tiny % why I moved (I had been through Sylmar, Malibu, Whittier Narrows and that weird San Bedu event).

A quake like Northridge is a life changer.

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[doorgunner69]

Lived out in Thousand Oaks at the time, and we got a good shake, but not stupendous. Knocked a couple pictures over and that was about it.

Seeing the destruction in SF valley was a real shocker, just did not seem that bad to us.

[Yaelle]

I moved back to the valley four months after the earthquake, from Europe. Everywhere I went, 90% of all conversations were about the earthquake! all the time. Every child was still in the parents’ bed. It was deeply within everyone’s core who had gone through it. Damage was everywhere. And when we rented a little house in the valley the chimney was destroyed.

[Churchillspirit]

I was in an elevator in Long Beach when a 5.1 aftershock occurred at 5p.m......took the stairs for weeks afterwards.

Still sometimes think about those poor folks on the Nimitz freeway.

[Sarah Barracuda]

I remember that day like it was yesterday..and Im about 40 minutes away from Northridge, felt it good here, no power for two days, vases broke, and the noise, the noise is something you don’t forget

[Zuben Elgenubi]

I was in the Four Seasons hotel for a wedding and experienced this earthquake. The hotel shook so bad, the water surged out of the kamode.

[PowderMonkey]

Oh goody! I hope they replay that video clip of the interview with the "scientist" from UCLA who claimed the earthquake was a result of "Mother nature herself is furious with human kind for what they've done to the earth, and expressing her anger!" ...umm...ok, lady. You're a UCLA "scientist" with a Ph.D., and you're telling us the volcano god is angry. Think about that.

[Verginius Rufus]

The Northridge quake happened early on a Monday morning which happened to be the Martin Luther King holiday. If it had not been a holiday, probably the death toll on the freeways would have been a good deal higher.

There was an earthquake in the San Fernando Valley in 1991 which caused slightly more deaths although it wasn't quite as strong a quake. The next winter I was riding an Amtrak train east from California. There was a very old woman on the train who was moving to Fort Worth because she had been terrified by the quake. She didn't know anyone there but she had gotten married there 60 years earlier and there had been lots of people at the wedding, so she was sure she could find someone she knew.

[xone]

My dog called it 36 hours before it hit.