[DaveMSmith]

I was living in West LA near Santa Monica then.... I remember that day very well.

[bd476]

It's hard to explain, isn't it. I was in Sherman Oaks, where supposedly there was a second quake nearly simultaneous to the Northridge quake, making the total impact equivalent to a 9.0 quake.

There were 9 buildings on my block which came down. Miraculously, my building was eventually green tagged. Of course the innards were shook like they'd been put through a blender.

[John Robertson]

I was living on 15th Street, in Santa Monica. Quake destroyed our house. Wife and kids and I all got injured, but minor. That was it. My wife never went back into that house. We moved out of Southern Cali for Pittsburgh (home state), something we'd been planning to do anyway. After wildfires, torrential rains/mudslides, riots (Rodney King), the quake just pushed us out of there. We didn't want to raise two kids there anyway. Didn't help my career, but it was good for my life in every other way.