Won't ever forget this day.....

[R K T]

[RNajarian]

You are not kidding pal!

[Scott Douglas]

Funny, I remember that happening but can't place where I was other than at home.

[vash]

loma prieta?

[masraum]

Originally Posted by vash

loma prieta?

I didn't know either.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1994_Northridge_earthquake

The 1994 Northridge earthquake was a moment magnitude 6.7 (Mw),[8] blind thrust earthquake that occurred on January 17, 1994, at 4:30:55 a.m. PST in the San Fernando Valley region of the City of Los Angeles. The quake had a duration of approximately 10–20 seconds, and its peak ground acceleration of 1.82 g was the highest ever instrumentally recorded in an urban area in North America.[9][10][11] Shaking was felt as far away as San Diego, Turlock, Las Vegas, Richfield, and Ensenada.[12] The peak ground velocity at the Rinaldi Receiving Station was 183 cm/s (4.1 mph; 6.6 km/h), the fastest ever recorded.[7]

Two 6.0 Mw  aftershocks followed, the first about one minute after the initial event and the second approximately 11 hours later, the strongest of several thousand aftershocks in all.[13] The death toll was 57, with more than 9,000 injured.[14][15] In addition, property damage was estimated to be $13–50 billion (equivalent to $24–93 billion in 2021), making it one of the costliest natural disasters in U.S. history.[16]

[vash]

Originally Posted by vash

loma prieta?

edit. googled it, Northridge.

scary stuff.

[drcoastline]

Originally Posted by R K T

Did you take the photo? is one of those cars yours?

[Tobra]

I bet I know two dozen people that were in the 1989 SF quake and both LA quakes in 1992 and 1994.

[ckissick]

Originally Posted by Tobra

I bet I know two dozen people that were in the 1989 SF quake and both LA quakes in 1992 and 1994.

Let's see: '89, '92, '94. Any notable quakes in CA since? Not really. I'd say CA is due. A 7.0 on the Hayward fault? The average interval between the last 5 quakes is 140 years, and the last one was 154 years ago. The next one will be catastrophic.

[Zeke]

I had just arrived in AL for a year's stay. Then a tornado came.

[R K T]

Originally Posted by drcoastline

Did you take the photo? is one of those cars yours?

No!

My wife and I thought this was it though.

[R K T]

Originally Posted by ckissick

Let's see: '89, '92, '94. Any notable quakes in CA since? Not really. I'd say CA is due. A 7.0 on the Hayward fault? The average interval between the last 5 quakes is 140 years, and the last one was 154 years ago. The next one will be catastrophic.

There was a 5.7 or so in '2019 in the desert.

We were at one of the local casinos for the Jethro Tull concert. They came on stage and half way through the first song it hit. The building was swaying and over half the crowd ran for the exits. The band was playing hard and didn't know what was going on. Why is everyone leaving... are we that bad?!!!

We lived in Palm Desert about three miles from the San Andreas fault and had small quakes everyday.

[red-beard]

I was on a phone conference (I was in upstate NY) with a group in L.A. while it hit. They yelled they had to go. We talked to them again after it was over, but just to check on them.

[LWJ]

My uncle, who is an actuary, claims that the cost of Northridge was in excess of ALL earthquake insurance premiums prior to the quake.

Not sure if this is accurate. But it is a cool fact.

[look 171]

OH yeah, that one rocked me out of bed all right. Finished college a couple years ago, the economy was in a tail spin, that I remember really well. My plan was to get out to my little cabinet shop in the valley to clean things up, ready to close shop for good within the next couple months to stop the bleeding because I was offered a teaching job at a local high school as a shop teacher. It jolted me out of bed and the sound was ferocious, like a freight train coming through at full speed. I think my little bed moved a couple of feet. My aunt's house in Granda Hills had some serious structural damage, eventually it was rebuilt. A lot of people ran out of insurance money, enough to fix the structure, but not enough to complete the finish product. My current neighbor down the street cut her teeth as a FEMA lawyer on the Northridge quake and has been with FEMA ever since.

Somehow I don't remember the Landers quake. The name I do remember but not the earthquake itself.