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Where were you 34 years ago?
Culled | Feb.8 05 | Self

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.


TOPICS: Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; US: California
KEYWORDS: 1971; 70s; anniversary; caearthquakes; earthquake; earthquakes
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To: missyme

I was in westchester. was that before the fox hills mall was bulit?


41 posted on 02/08/2005 8:44:14 PM PST by al baby (she stuned my little beeber)
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To: hadrian

42 posted on 02/08/2005 8:44:24 PM PST by Delta 21 (MKC USCG -ret)
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To: al baby

In Detroit, learning to walk.


43 posted on 02/08/2005 8:45:36 PM PST by rintense
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To: al baby

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.


44 posted on 02/08/2005 8:45:42 PM PST by speedy
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To: al baby

I was 3 1/2 years old and in Buffalo, it wasn't my fault.


45 posted on 02/08/2005 8:46:00 PM PST by Pylon (The Pylon cam was my idea.)
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To: al baby

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


46 posted on 02/08/2005 8:46:08 PM PST by missyme (imho)
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To: nicmarlo

Still do...


47 posted on 02/08/2005 8:46:31 PM PST by null and void (God must love stupid people - He made so many of them... (Not enough to win an election!) -restornu)
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To: nicmarlo

Hey I was in Rowland Heights also. Kitchen floor opened up about 1/2 inch.


48 posted on 02/08/2005 8:46:48 PM PST by everyvotecounts
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To: al baby

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'.


49 posted on 02/08/2005 8:47:02 PM PST by HangWithMe
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To: null and void

Do you know where you live now, though? : )


50 posted on 02/08/2005 8:47:04 PM PST by nicmarlo
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To: everyvotecounts

Wow...were you up on the hills?


51 posted on 02/08/2005 8:47:30 PM PST by nicmarlo
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To: al baby
On station, off Bai Thuong, NVN, out of Danang.

Being spies and dreaming of Pamela's thighs.

52 posted on 02/08/2005 8:48:00 PM PST by BIGLOOK (I once opposed keelhauling but have recently come to my senses.)
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To: nicmarlo

Not the basement...


53 posted on 02/08/2005 8:48:49 PM PST by null and void (God must love stupid people - He made so many of them... (Not enough to win an election!) -restornu)
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To: al baby

I was yet a year away from conception. I don't know how you all made it that long without me.


54 posted on 02/08/2005 8:49:01 PM PST by streetpreacher (There will be no Trolls in heaven.)
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To: clintonh8r; Poser


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.


55 posted on 02/08/2005 8:49:05 PM PST by onyx ("First you look to God, then to Fox News" -- Denny Crane, Republican...lol.)
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To: nicmarlo

No, lived off Otterbein on Roleo St. I was in grade school doing homework with my dad at the kitchen table.


56 posted on 02/08/2005 8:49:20 PM PST by everyvotecounts
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To: null and void

and not in Pomona! : )


57 posted on 02/08/2005 8:49:58 PM PST by nicmarlo
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To: missyme

the shack, tiny naylors ,the big donut toes beach
fun fun fun


58 posted on 02/08/2005 8:50:18 PM PST by al baby (she stuned my little beeber)
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To: al baby

Jackson Mississippi.

8th grade

Prep School.


Almost a hellion....one year left as a good lad.


59 posted on 02/08/2005 8:50:27 PM PST by wardaddy (I don't think Muslims are good for America....just a gut instinct thing.)
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To: everyvotecounts

Roleo? I don't know that street. But of course I know where Otterbein is....went to high school there! : )


60 posted on 02/08/2005 8:50:50 PM PST by nicmarlo
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