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The Northridge Earthquake was the subject of the 1995 film Epicenter U., a first-hand account of healing from the natural disaster, directed by Alexis Krasilovsky. [71] [72] The Earthquake Haggadah (1995) was a video excerpt from Epicenter U. narrated by Wanda Coleman. Distributed in 3/4" and VHS by the Poetry Film Workshop circa 1998.
The earliest known earthquake in the U.S. state of California was documented in 1769 by ... Date Name Area Mag. MMI Deaths ... Northridge LA Area: 6.7 M w: IX 57 ...
1994 Northridge earthquake: September 1, 1994: California 7.0 M w 0 1994 Northern California earthquake [23] April 14, 1995: Texas: ... Date Further information
About 55 earthquakes a day – 20,000 a year – are recorded by the National Earthquake Information Center. ... The epicenter of the Northridge earthquake in Los Angeles in 1994 was in the San ...
Our understanding and preparedness have come a long way since Northridge's magnitude 6.7 earthquake in 1994. We're still learning from that destructive temblor. The 1994 Northridge quake was a shock.
The worst in modern Los Angeles history was the 6.7-magnitude Northridge earthquake in 1994, the first to strike under a major metro area since the 1930s. ... a day for people around the world to ...
The Northridge Blind Thrust Fault (also known as the Pico Thrust Fault) is a thrust fault that is located in the San Fernando Valley area of Los Angeles.It is the fault that triggered the M w 6.7 1994 Northridge earthquake which caused $13–50 billion in property damage (equivalent to 24–93 billion today) and was one of the costliest natural disasters in U.S. history.
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 ...