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English: Northridge Earthquake, CA, January 17, 1994 -� Many roads, including bridges and elevated highways were damaged by the 6.7 magnitude earthquake. Approximately 114,000 residential and commercial structures were damaged and 72 deaths were attributed to the earthquake. Damage costs were estimated at $25 billion. FEMA News Photo
The 1994 Northridge earthquake affected the Los Angeles area of California on January 17, 1994, at 04:30:55 PST. The epicenter of the moment magnitude 6.7 ( M w ) blind thrust earthquake was beneath the San Fernando Valley . [ 3 ]
1994 Taiwan Strait earthquake: Four people were killed, 400 were injured, and damage to buildings occurred in Guangdong and Fujian provinces, China. Some damage also occurred in Penghu County, Taiwan. 4 400 23 [124] Papua New Guinea, Bismarck Sea offshore 6.1 33.0 I - - - 27 [125] Colombia, Chocó offshore 6.2 33.0 I - - - 28 [126]
Six earthquakes hit Southern California in one week. ... $20bn in damage and killed over 57 people, ... like the 1857 and 1906 San Andreas earthquakes, as well 1994’s Northridge earthquake, all ...
The collapsed freeway section was rebuilt and opened to traffic about three months after the 1994 Northridge earthquake knocked it down. The crucial freeway corridor is once again closed, this ...
Between 1964 and 1994, Los Angeles faced two big earthquakes, which both hit the suburban San Fernando Valley hard: the magnitude 6.6 Sylmar earthquake of 1971, which resulted in 64 deaths; and ...
The plate margin that remains in California is that of the strike-slip San Andreas Fault (SAF), the diffuse Pacific–North American plate boundary that extends east into the Basin and Range Province of eastern California and western Nevada (a seismically active area called Walker Lane) and southwest into the California Continental Borderland ...
One more thing Southern California is known for: earthquakes. ... Los Angeles history was the 6.7-magnitude Northridge earthquake in 1994, the first to strike under a major metro area since the ...