The small quakes happening all over the state has led my wife to read up on preparedness. Oh, actually it’s a podcast. JoAn takes it serious for a good reason, 1994 Northridge. I was in Michigan, dodging the crafty tornadoes.
No doubt a big one will come to our region. I’ve only been privy to one extremely shaky ground incident in 1998. It was reported ‘just’ an aftershock from the ’94 Northridge quake.
“You’ll thank me someday, for being a renter.”
Los Angeles city limit sign on the 5 Freeway. The Northridge quake hit at 4:31 the morning of Jan. 17, 1994, a powerful jolt that flattened buildings, destroyed homes, damaged freeways, ignited fires and disrupted water and power. The 6.7-magnitude Northridge Earthquake also killed nearly three dozen people, injured 8,700 more, caused some $20 billion in damage and shattered the nerves of millions of Southern California residents. “It was like the devil was waking up … it was a horrifying feeling,” said one of the quake victims quoted in a Daily News story on Jan. 18.
Photo By Hans Gutnecht/Daily News
