Posted on 01/19/2021 11:47:21 AM PST by L.A.Justice
LOS ANGELES (CBSLA) — Sunday marked the 27th anniversary of the deadly 1994 Northridge earthquake.
The 6.7 magnitude earthquake struck on Jan. 17, 1994, at 4:31 a.m., jolting San Fernando Valley residents awake.
The earthquake killed 57 people and injured thousands more in the Los Angeles area, also causing billions of dollars in damages.
Find more details about how to prepare for an earthquake, and what to include in your disaster kit, on L.A. County’s preparedness site.
The ShakeAlert smartphone app will give you the heads up before a potentially dangerous earthquake. It is available for download in the iOS and Android app stores.
When it happened, I was not in Los Angeles...I was away for school...
One LAPD motorcycle officer died when the freeway collapsed...
It is a scary thought...Freeway collapsing while cars are traveling...
Are you prepared for the next earthquake? I am not really ready...I do not even have bottles of water ready...Maybe I should go back to Costco and get some water bottles...
27th anniversary??
Slow news week?
I mean...I might expect a 30th anniv story, but...27th?
That’s just f’n WEIRD.
Makes me wonder what I’m NOT supposed to be noticing today.
My best friend had the dubious honor of embalming half of the victims.
She switched to front office work shortly thereafter.
On a lighter note one of my nephews family lived a mile from the epicenter. He slept through it, in the top bunk!
They were on a vibrational node, no damage in their neighborhood, collapsed buildings a mile away on either side.
Yertle the Turtle.
I had a unique view of it being at work and wide awake on one of the mountains overlooking the SFV. Of course it shook like the devil even way up there and I could see the transformers blowing up, wide swaths of the Valley going dark, and the fires breaking out. Of course my main concern was for my wife and two small boys in the Valley below.
I had a co-worker who had a California mortician license...He told me that there are some women who work in the mortuary business...One of his mentors was a woman...
On a lighter note one of my nephews family lived a mile from the epicenter. He slept through it, in the top bunk!
I have to admit that I sometimes slept through earthquakes in the past...
Northridge earthquake was a big historical event...You had a good view...
Most interesting female I ever met was a mortician!
Her actions would have put rednecks to shame.
“Move Male cadavers by the handle and females like a bowling ball”!
When entering the movie “Deep Throat” and seeing the”real thing” she proclaimed “It ate the whole world”!
I wonder if she mentored him.
“Most interesting female I ever met was a mortician!
Her actions would have put rednecks to shame.”
HBO had a series named SIX FEET UNDER...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six_Feet_Under_(TV_series)
My brother lived right on top of the epicenter . He said it was like a giant under the house punching it from below.
One LAPD motorcycle officer died when the freeway collapsed...
It was a Monday, the Martin Luther King holiday. That probably saved a lot of lives because there were lots fewer cars on the freeways than there normally would have been at that hour.
The closer you are to the epicenter the more you feel it and the less you hear it. Farther away you hear it more and feel it less. When you hear it, it sounds like a subway train. I only felt the apartment building shaking without any rumbling so I knew the epicenter was close.
As the building rocked and rolled, it still held together, so I assumed this was the infamous Big One on the San Andreas Fault. I cheered it on figuring that if this were the Big One, let’s get it over with once and for all. When it stopped, the power was out, so I grabbed my Walkman to see if I could find out via radio what was going on.
The automated FM music stations were still broadcasting their automated music, and I couldn’t get AM reception. Someone at the Westinghouse automated music FM station turned off the machine and plugged it into the Westinghouse AM all news station, KFWB, so now I had coverage.
It was “a big one” but not “The Big One.” There were water main and gas line bursts in the San Fernando Valley. The I-5/CA-14 interchange had collapsed. A bridge on the Santa Monica Freeway had collapsed.
My only damage was a VCR that had fallen out of position on a cabinet and torn out its innards. It was due for replacement anyway.
The earth rang like a bell for most of the day with one aftershock after another. You would be surprised how little you care about a small earthquake after a really big one. No sooner did I get power back than we had the big aftershock, and I lost power again for a while.
The office building in Woodland Hills where I worked had most of its windows shatter and fall to the ground. The hot water tank for the building exploded. Fortunately, nobody was hurt.
The San Rafael Hills had cushioned the Simi Valley from the worst of the shaking, sending the vibrations echoing back into the San Fernando Valley. In my area the liquefaction zone ran through the Wood Ranch Golf Course at the bottom of the hill, and the clubhouse was damaged. Being on a hill I was on granite, so I had less shaking and very little damage.
I was exceptionally lucky.
Ping
I was living on Pasadena. No big damage. My lamp walked over to the edge of my desk and fell off. I told my housemate to get dressed in case this was just a foreshock and we both sat in our respective doorways and tried to doze off. I went into the office, in downtown LA later that day. Every file cabinet drawer was open. The tv in the conference room was face down on the floor. Aftershocks over 5.0 the next day really rolled the office building. As expected, actually, since it was built on rollers.
Aren’t we due for another one?
For work I was staying at the then Barnaby Hotel near Rosecrans and Sepulveda Blvd, Manhattan Beach. The Barnaby décor was kind of Victorian French Quarter styling. When the ground rumbled the plaster began dropping. Being an Okie more use to tornados than earthquakes, I stumbled and crawled under a desk for shelter. By the time I was fully awake, the excitement was nearly over. With power out, I spent most of the day reading magazines in the courtyard.
I woke up about 2 minutes before it hit.
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