Posted on 02/08/2005 8:21:37 PM PST by al baby
TIME February 9, 1971 / 6:01 am PST LOCATION 34° 24.67' N, 118° 24.04' W MAGNITUDE MW6.6 DEPTH: 8.4 km TYPE OF FAULTING thrust - ANIMATION FAULT INVOLVED San Fernando fault zone; minor offset reported on the eastern Santa Susana fault zone
Also known as the Sylmar Earthquake, this earthquake occurred on the San Fernando fault zone, a zone of thrust faulting which broke the surface in the Sylmar-San Fernando Area. The total surface rupture was roughly 19 km (12 miles) long. The maximum slip was up to 2 meters (6 feet).
The earthquake caused over $500 million in property damage and 65 deaths. Most of the deaths occurred when the Veteran's Administration Hospital collapsed. Several other hospitals, including the Olive View Community Hospital in Sylmar (pictured below) suffered severe damage. Newly constructured freeway overpasses also collapsed, in damage scenes similar to those which occurred 23 years later in the 1994 Northridge Earthquake. Loss of life could have been much greater had the earthquake struck at a busier time of day.
I was just over 1 month old.
I was living in Palmdale just over the hill from the quake. Had a posterbed on a tile/concrete floor. Man it danced all over the room. I was just out of the Army and was a heavy equip operator. I put in 70-80 hours a week for months doing demo, cleanup and reconstruction. I made a lot of money. So much that I actually paid more in taxes for '71 than I made the year before.
Ha, Ha, Ha , Ha,... Not my first feel, But I will NEVER forget the first time I hear the beatles sing I want to hold your hand (for the rest of my life that song will be I want to hold your gland).... That was the day the damn broke in Fox hills.
Oooooops! Thanks for reminding me.
That's when they started the 24-hr visitation...
I was probably shacked-up in Heister down in Pollock Halls instead of back in my own room in Pennypacker...
Dang... how could I forget THAT??? (LOL!!!)
11 years old living in Auburn, Alabama... ridin' my spider bike...
not without a uzi
I attended Jellick Elementary, Alvarado Jr. High and Rowland H.S., graduated in.....mid 70's lol.
I was 17 and living about 60 miles south of the epicenter. It jolted me out of bed and I remember hearing what sounded like a huge explosion. My first thought was that someone nuked L.A. Then my mom came running into my room saying "the backyard is undulating!" and I knew then it was a quake. Was in the same area for the Northridge in 94 and that was much worse. The first time I was ever petrified by a quake.
I remember the Guess Who concert, not the Cali. earthquake.
I was in my first year of teaching, down the road in Bellefonte.
P.S. "The Captain and Me" is IMHO the best Doobie Brothers album by a country mile, with the second best being "Toulose Street".
Good evening.
I was in Santa Cruz but I don't remember feeling much.
Michael Frazier.
me too north ridge was a mother "shut my mouth" big one it was just mean
I had turned 65 two weeks prior, and I remember spending most of that day at the Social Security Office trying to get a mistake in my file corrected.
I left my East Halls dorm, and PSU, the year before.
Parking Lot 80 is no more. It's almost entirely built over. Nothing in my life has ever been as cold as that miserable walk across PL 80.
ewwwww
Happy memories of the Student Book Store and getting fleeced by McLanahan's (at least we thought so -- probably they had high overhead from all the thieving college students.) I remember most days barely being able to get up in time for lunch. Man, it's a good thing we gain a little judgment after college.
Boy, Bellefonte was a different world. I used to get the heebie-jeebies going through there. I have to say the Guess Who gave a great concert -- sounded very close to the recordings, no goofing around between songs, all business. And in the comfort of lovely Rec Hall!! Do they still have those stinky ag buildings out past East Halls?
Dude! So you're, like, 99?
I wonder who the oldest FReeper is?
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