When the San Andreas fault goes, the shaking will last at least 100 seconds compared to the few seconds shaking which occurred during the Northridge earthquake.
I was a distance from Northridge, and Northridge was yet quite an experience.
Thank you Alia.
I was not far enough away from Northridge and also was sitting on a previously unknown fault line. I'm pretty sure I'm repeating myself here but on my block nine buildings came down that day. We were slammed from the Northridge quake then slammed again because of the independent earthquake in the previously undetected fault line.
Miraculously only the inside contents of my apartment were tossed around or destroyed, not the building itself. Next door, the walls went from vertical to horizontal and the floors buckled upwards into a point.
Two doors down from my building, another building instantly converted from being a three story building into a two story building. Thank God no one was home in the first floor apartment.
After the earthquake, if I hadn't known that there were three stories in that building prior to the quake, it would have been very difficult to see where the first floor used to be. The first floor was flattened down so much that only the second story apartment seemed to be half-way lowered into the subterranean parking garage.