Posted on 01/17/2015 8:48:18 AM PST by WhiskeyX
1994 Northridge earthquake
The 1994 Northridge earthquake occurred on January 17, at 4:30:55 a.m. PST and was centered in Reseda, a neighborhood in the north-central San Fernando Valley region of Los Angeles, California. It had a duration of approximately 10–20 seconds.[4] The blind thrust earthquake had a moment magnitude (Mw) of 6.7, which produced ground acceleration that were the highest ever instrumentally recorded in an urban area in North America,[5] measuring 1.8g (16.7 m/s2)[6] with strong ground motion felt as far away as Las Vegas, Nevada, about 220 miles (360 km) from the epicenter. The peak ground velocity in this earthquake at the Rinaldi Receiving station was 183 cm/s[7] (4.09 mph or 6.59 km/h), the fastest peak ground velocity ever recorded. In addition, two 6.0 Mw aftershocks occurred, the first about one minute after the initial event and the second approximately 11 hours later, the strongest of several thousand aftershocks in all.[8] The death toll was 57, with more than 5,000 injured. In addition, earthquake-caused property damage was estimated to be more than $20 billion, making it one of the costliest natural disasters in U.S. history.[9]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1994_Northridge_earthquake
Start of Northridge quake coverage 1/17/94.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p6LKlYb2vhA
Northridge Earthquake Raw Footage (1994)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JjwK_h_WRxg
Northridge Earthquake | 1994 NEWS COVERAGE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zfuz5WKR5So
Los Angeles Earthquake
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mcoHJHo8d6k
1/17/94 1st Segment of "ABC World News Tonight" Northridge Quake
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Xg_mhA4ffA
Northridge Earthquake January 17, 1994: Caltrans Responds
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ntyKD4DEKo
4 Northridge Earthquake Jan 17 1994 -collapsed freeways, crashed trains, mobile home park fires
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2wekguzYeF4
1994 Northridge Earthquake: Then & Now (20 Years Later) - P1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OSnqYhZ8uy4
1994 Northridge Earthquake: Then & Now (20 Years Later) - P2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8wCcNqfwJb0
Northridge Meadows Apartments 1994 Earthquake
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZn8gfaxkbw
St Patty’s day?
Are you sure?
It’s their video title. In any event this is the 17 January 1994 Northridge Earthquake.
I was about 40 miles (Palmdale) from the 1971 Sylmar quake and about 100 miles (Bakersfield) from the ‘94 quake.
There was a quake on March 17, 2014 and I think those newsrooms are shown for that one.
Different event for the Northridge quake — which was also earlier in the morning — probably before some of those stations began morning newscasts.
Also, the news people shown are all relatively new and the lead-ins were much less sophisticated in 94.
Start of Northridge quake coverage 1/17/94.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p6LKlYb2vhA
Northridge Earthquake Raw Footage (1994)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JjwK_h_WRxg
Northridge Earthquake | 1994 NEWS COVERAGE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zfuz5WKR5So
Los Angeles Earthquake
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mcoHJHo8d6k
1/17/94 1st Segment of “ABC World News Tonight” Northridge Quake
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Xg_mhA4ffA
Northridge Earthquake January 17, 1994: Caltrans Responds
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ntyKD4DEKo
4 Northridge Earthquake Jan 17 1994 -collapsed freeways, crashed trains, mobile home park fires
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2wekguzYeF4
1994 Northridge Earthquake: Then & Now (20 Years Later) - P1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OSnqYhZ8uy4
1994 Northridge Earthquake: Then & Now (20 Years Later) - P2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8wCcNqfwJb0
Northridge Meadows Apartments 1994 Earthquake
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZn8gfaxkbw
Links in the comment section of the posting page for some reason do not display as links.
Why that is, I don’t know.
Happy St. Patrick’s Day everyone!
I hope you remember to wear blue.
Orange.
You’re supposed to wear orange on St. Patrick’s Day.
The links kept trying to stay on the same line with the text despite being on different lines. Despite converting to plain text in a text editor, the copy stubbornly defaulted back over into html again when the supposed plain text was pasted into FR. Evidently there was some hidden html which stubbornly refused to be gotten rid of.
January 17,is not St.Patrick’s Day. The poster made a mistake. I believe it was Martin Luther Kings holiday that year.
Maybe they celebrate for the "Black Irish"
Even O'Bama has some Irish blood in his geneology .
Correct. I remember my Father in law calling from Florida, to be sure everyone was OK, but he was concerned, because he couldn’t get a hold of his other daughter, in Costa Mesa. I told him I would try to reach her, and report back. She was not a morning person, so I waited for a while, to call her at work, but there was no answer. This was back in the day when businesses would have a live person answer the call. I started getting concerned, as well, hoping that she was OK. It took me about two hours to realize that the bank she worked at, was not open, on King, Jr. day.
True to form, I called her house, at about 11:15am, and woke her up ;)
It was. I remember it quite well.
St.Patrick’s Day is on March 17th, except when it falls within he Holy Week of the Resurrection. The Youtube author got it wrong.
Martin Luther King, Jr. Day is the third Monday of January, which was on 17 January 1994.
We were within about thirty miles of the Northridge Earthquake, and it shook us awake. The electrical power lines and the transformers on the poles outside the house were arcing and showering sparks during the earthquake.
When sitting in traffic jams on the freeways, I refused to stop while under an overpass. I always made the effort to stop in front of the overpass and leave a gap in the traffic jam underneath it. The traffic behind typically went crazy with their efforts to tailgate, honk, pass around, flip the bird, and so forth for the privilege of risking being crushed into a paste during an earthquake.
I used to live in southern California and I always hated being stuck in traffic under an overpass.
I live in Maine now, and I still hate it when that happens.
Northridge and Sylmar. If those two quakes didn’t scare you you were on drugs.
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