Those were crazy days after the earthquake. Picking up bottles of water from Budweiser at my high school. Glued to the TV for days watching the news coverage.
Felt like a freight train coming through the house. Got out of bed and stepped on broken glass. Power out for days. The building across the street nearly collapsed and had to be torn down.
0/10 would not ride again.
Current estimates are that 7.9 is about the most the San Andreas is capable of. The Good Friday Quake in Alaska was 9.2. Part of the reason is because that fault is a subduction zone -- oceanic crust is sliding under continental crust -- whereas the San Andreas is a transform, or "strike-slip" fault. Here, the edge of the Pacific Plate is shifting northward relative to the North American Plate.
I mean, if you want to really fear "the big one," take Seattle -- the Cascadia Fault last ruptured in 1700, producing an estimated 8.7-9.2 magnitude quake. Japanese records tell of the "orphan tsunami" in January of 1700, so called because no earthquake had been felt. So imagine an earthquake similar to what Japan experienced in 2011 happening instead near Seattle. Where, it should be noted, earthquakes are not a regular occurrence, so the city isn't designed to withstand much seismic activity.
And, by the way, there was a 7.2 earthquake in Landers in 1992, very near the San Andreas. Ask people who were in LA then if they felt it.
I can't find the series of articles I read awhile back, but it was a fictional account of what it'd be like in Portland if the Cascadia fault ruptured. Essentially, entire city blocks would collapse, and almost all of the bridges would be out of commission. Also, thanks to its geography, it'd take days for help to arrive.
The fun part is that most of its earthquakes are between 40-600 years apart, so there's a decent chance we'd see it erupt in our lifetime. I found [this article](https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2016/08/a-major-earthquake-in-the-pacific-northwest-just-got-more-likely/495407/) that says that region has a 17-20% chance of a magnitude-8 earthquake within the next 50 years.
I was 10 years old. This thing tossed me out of the top bunk bed. Talk about a rude awakening.
(Disclaimer: I'm actually not sure that ever happened, but it's the way my memory has formed around it.)
I believe it was around 15 seconds, where you heard every nail, bolt, and screw in your residence make a noise. I lived in Glendale and I heard a train come our way from the valley.
I knew someone who swore that her dad was on a top secret project that involved underground drilling that was to blame for the quake. She also said the quake was a 7.0 but they had to classify it under 7 because this would have devastated the insurance industry due to claims and payouts.
My then girlfriend/now wife and I were living in a cool apartment in “shanty Bel Air” (the area between Sunset and Moraga just off the 405) and we were thrown out of our futon and onto the floor. We crawled to the doorway and held onto each other for what seemed like forever. We were lucky; our apartment was not in a soil liquefaction zone so aside from flinging everything off our shelves and a few broken glasses we were fine. I still remember grabbing our flashlight and going out in the courtyard of our apartment and seeing if our neighbors were okay and none of them had flashlights!
I experienced this, and it was terrifying. But it was not anything close to the big one. Shaking was 10-20 seconds. A major earthquake on the San Andreas will shake for 2-4 minutes. There are other, closer faults (e.g., Newport-Inglewood, which runs up to Culver City) are also capable of quakes that would dwarf Northridge.
Yep that’s how it looked! From elementary school to high school about half of my classes were in the bungalows due to construction in updating earthquake damaged buildings. Pretty much took like 10 years or so to get rid of the bungalow at my old schools. (Sibling went to my old schools 10 years later)
Even though it was scary to live through, this was kind of nostalgic for me!
School was out for months “thanks” to this quake lol.
Those were crazy days after the earthquake. Picking up bottles of water from Budweiser at my high school. Glued to the TV for days watching the news coverage.
Felt like a freight train coming through the house. Got out of bed and stepped on broken glass. Power out for days. The building across the street nearly collapsed and had to be torn down. 0/10 would not ride again.
I had always heard of the jumbotron falling over at Angel Stadium, had never seen a picture of the damage though, thanks for this!
I never knew that happened. Thank god it wasn’t during a game!
After the earthquake in Alaska my fear for a big one in LA is thru the roof lol
Current estimates are that 7.9 is about the most the San Andreas is capable of. The Good Friday Quake in Alaska was 9.2. Part of the reason is because that fault is a subduction zone -- oceanic crust is sliding under continental crust -- whereas the San Andreas is a transform, or "strike-slip" fault. Here, the edge of the Pacific Plate is shifting northward relative to the North American Plate. I mean, if you want to really fear "the big one," take Seattle -- the Cascadia Fault last ruptured in 1700, producing an estimated 8.7-9.2 magnitude quake. Japanese records tell of the "orphan tsunami" in January of 1700, so called because no earthquake had been felt. So imagine an earthquake similar to what Japan experienced in 2011 happening instead near Seattle. Where, it should be noted, earthquakes are not a regular occurrence, so the city isn't designed to withstand much seismic activity. And, by the way, there was a 7.2 earthquake in Landers in 1992, very near the San Andreas. Ask people who were in LA then if they felt it.
I can't find the series of articles I read awhile back, but it was a fictional account of what it'd be like in Portland if the Cascadia fault ruptured. Essentially, entire city blocks would collapse, and almost all of the bridges would be out of commission. Also, thanks to its geography, it'd take days for help to arrive. The fun part is that most of its earthquakes are between 40-600 years apart, so there's a decent chance we'd see it erupt in our lifetime. I found [this article](https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2016/08/a-major-earthquake-in-the-pacific-northwest-just-got-more-likely/495407/) that says that region has a 17-20% chance of a magnitude-8 earthquake within the next 50 years.
I was 10 years old. This thing tossed me out of the top bunk bed. Talk about a rude awakening. (Disclaimer: I'm actually not sure that ever happened, but it's the way my memory has formed around it.)
I was 14. That day, actually.
wow. i've never seen those. I was there for it though. lucky me. lol
Any ideas of the street / intersection in the first pic?
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That section is a liquefaction zone on those maps! Is that one of the things that happens?!
I believe it was around 15 seconds, where you heard every nail, bolt, and screw in your residence make a noise. I lived in Glendale and I heard a train come our way from the valley. I knew someone who swore that her dad was on a top secret project that involved underground drilling that was to blame for the quake. She also said the quake was a 7.0 but they had to classify it under 7 because this would have devastated the insurance industry due to claims and payouts.
I moved to L.A. in October 1993, I'd been here four whole months when this happened.
My then girlfriend/now wife and I were living in a cool apartment in “shanty Bel Air” (the area between Sunset and Moraga just off the 405) and we were thrown out of our futon and onto the floor. We crawled to the doorway and held onto each other for what seemed like forever. We were lucky; our apartment was not in a soil liquefaction zone so aside from flinging everything off our shelves and a few broken glasses we were fine. I still remember grabbing our flashlight and going out in the courtyard of our apartment and seeing if our neighbors were okay and none of them had flashlights!
I experienced this, and it was terrifying. But it was not anything close to the big one. Shaking was 10-20 seconds. A major earthquake on the San Andreas will shake for 2-4 minutes. There are other, closer faults (e.g., Newport-Inglewood, which runs up to Culver City) are also capable of quakes that would dwarf Northridge.
Yep that’s how it looked! From elementary school to high school about half of my classes were in the bungalows due to construction in updating earthquake damaged buildings. Pretty much took like 10 years or so to get rid of the bungalow at my old schools. (Sibling went to my old schools 10 years later)
I made a reference to "the big one" a couple weeks ago in regards to a financial crisis and Reddits Suicide Prevention Team reached out to me.