[GoforBroke]

let’s have a show of hands. What Earthquakes have you been through.

For me:

1971 Sylmar 6.6
1987 Whittier Narrows 5.9
1994 Northridge 6.7

great memories

[GoforBroke]

I almost forgot the Landers quake...but that felt less severe in Burbank.

[Redcloak]

let’s have a show of hands. What Earthquakes have you been through.

I was born in '63, so I've been through everything of any size since then; Sylmar, Whittier Narrows, Sierra Madre, the "Rose Bowl" quake, Landers/Bigbear, Northridge, and a few other big ones from way out in the southern desert. Though, I kinda missed the Whittier Narrows quake. I was driving to work that morning in a little pickup truck. At 80 MPH going down the I-210 toward the Tujunga wash, I was having my own, private earthquake! I didn't notice the extra shaking at all. It wasn't until I saw all of the dust getting kicked up back in the canyon that I realized that something big had actually hit.

[anymouse]

I was within 10 miles of the following earthquakes:

1971 Sylmar 6.6
1987 Whittier Narrows 5.9

and just missed the 1994 Northridge 6.7 when going back to L.A. to visit over the Christmas-New Years break by about a week.

Lived through the fires that surrounded the San Fernando Valley in the mid 70s. Got to eyeball a tornado in CO in 1978 while on Summer vacation.

Now I get to dodge hurricanes. ;)

Al Gore, stop your global whining, I’m tired of moving. /sarc

[4woodenboats]

I was in Sherman Oaks for the Sylmar quake, Canyon Country for the Whittier quake, and had left the southland 2 years before Northridge.

My apartment overhung the parking area during the Sylmar quake, had a pretty wild ride.....nothing like Northridge, though. I'll never forget the picture of a section of the 14 to 5 overpass where it collapsed just before a motorcycle cop went sailing over it to his death.

2 years earlier, I was driving that route every morning.