On Saturday, February 3, a special public event to commemorate the 30th Anniversary of the Northridge earthquake will be held at California State University Northridge (CSUN). The event is organized with City of Los Angeles Councilman John Lee, the City of Los Angeles Emergency Management Department, the Statewide California Earthquake Center, and many other partners to remember the lessons and losses of 1994 and to improve safety and resilience today.
Inside a Robinson’s May department store at the Northridge Fashion Center in the aftermath of the January 17, 1994 Northridge earthquake, whose 30th anniversary is today. #losangeles#earthquake#northridge#photography
The Northridge earthquake is so embedded in me I flinch every time I see it's Jan 17th.
I've crashed cars, had guns put in my face, all kinds of things, but nothing comes close to that.
I was in the SF Valley just off Ventura. When it happened it didn't even occur to me that it was an earthquake, it felt like the building or the world was exploding. It was so loud I think I woke up screaming but my wife right next to me said she didn't hear me.
The thing about the Northridge quake was for the last few years there had been quakes all the time and people just rolled with it and laughed. But it was not funny after that. It was traumatic.
I was in the studio a while later, doing something on the ground under the console, when I felt a tremor and jumped up to say something, but everyone in the room was gone by the time I stood up. No one in the building, they were all in the parking and had literally ran there.
People just up and left.
This guy who owned all the vending machines in the studio came in one day and started pulling them out. So I ask him what's going on.
His wife got in the car and left right after the quake. Just left. Wouldn't come back. He waited a few weeks but then he had to choose so he was shutting down his whole business and moving.
Working in a studio back then was a situation where you were always there unless you were dead.
I remember after the quake I didn't even call in to check on work, and no one called me, for like a week, and then when I did call they just said they weren't sure what was happening.
I just realized today is the 30th anniversary of the #Northridge#earthquake . I was living right on the ocean southwest of L.A.—in a skinny, 3-story house built on sand—at the time. My bedroom was on the 3rd floor, & I slept w/ the windows open to the ocean. I’d just gotten up to wee when the quake happened—I was on my way back to bed when I heard what sounded like a freight train bearing down on me. Then my house started twisting so hard I was unable to stand in it. +
Today is the 30 year anniversary of the 6.7-magnitude Northridge, CA earthquake. Freeway bridges and buildings collapsed. Cinderblock walls 10 miles from the epicenter crumbled like they were made of graham crackers. We all slept in tents in our front yards the next night because of the aftershocks. If you're in CA, today's as good a day as any to check your house for earthquake preparedness!
30th anniversary of the January 17, 1994 Northridge earthquake, 6.7 on the Richter Scale, hitting a wide area at 4:31 in the morning. This shot of a Kaiser Permanente clinic in Granada Hills; no doubt lives were saved because the quake hit so early in the morning. #losangeles#earthquake#northridge#photography
The National Weather Service extended a flash flood warning for parts of Los Angeles and Ventura counties to 3 a.m. local time, saying a “dangerous and life-threatening flash flood situation is developing” Point Mugu, Thousand Oaks and Woodland Hills, and across the mountains of Los Angeles County.
City of Milwaukee takes ownership of Northridge Mall site (spectrumnews1.com)
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Judge urges speed for Northridge Mall demolition (www.bizjournals.com)
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City Expects to Take Northridge In Foreclosure, Demolish Mall (urbanmilwaukee.com)
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Northridge Mall's prospective buyer walks away after failing to reach agreement with city (www.bizjournals.com)
They should have just let Penzeys buy it, back when it was worth something....