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 in westchester. was that before the fox hills mall was bulit?
In Detroit, learning to walk.
Can't remember if it was that exact day, but during that week I went to a Guess Who concert at Penn State. They performed their new song "Hang On To Your Life" along with other better-remembered numbers. Appropriate I guess in light of the quake.
I was 3 1/2 years old and in Buffalo, it wasn't my fault.
Yep! No Fox Hills
I use to hang out in Playa Del Rey at the end of Culver Blvd..Fun Fun Fun Place at the time
Still do...
Hey I was in Rowland Heights also. Kitchen floor opened up about 1/2 inch.
Came home to visit Mom and Dad in Costa Mesa, the night before, Mom said, 'I'm glad your here, now we can have the earthquake'.
Do you know where you live now, though? : )
Wow...were you up on the hills?
Being spies and dreaming of Pamela's thighs.
Not the basement...
I was yet a year away from conception. I don't know how you all made it that long without me.
Hey, you guys were in my home town!
I can remember watching the destruction
on TV, but if we felt the quake, it was
not memorable.... I have lived thru dozens
and I can't recall feeling this one.
No, lived off Otterbein on Roleo St. I was in grade school doing homework with my dad at the kitchen table.
and not in Pomona! : )
the shack, tiny naylors ,the big donut toes beach
fun fun fun
Jackson Mississippi.
8th grade
Prep School.
Almost a hellion....one year left as a good lad.
Roleo? I don't know that street. But of course I know where Otterbein is....went to high school there! : )
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