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Second view of the damage at the Northridge Meadows Apartment Building. The first floor of the building had garages at each end with apartments in the middle many of which collapsed. The joist hangers were too small and the joists were not nailed in the hangers. The sheer walls were not made of plywood but of gypsum board. There was reduced shear strength on the lower floor because of the garages. Steel supporting posts bent and collapsed, and the upper story of the unit pictured here shifted to the north as it fell. Image Credit: J. Dewey. U.S. Geological Survey January 17, 1994 Northridge USA earthquake At 4:31 am local time (12:31 GMT) on Monday, January 17, 1994, a magnitude 6.8 earthquake twenty miles west northwest of downtown Los Angeles awoke nearly everyone in southern California. Damage was most extensive in the San Fernando Valley, the Simi Valley, and in the northern part of the Los Angeles Basin. It took 57 lives and caused $10 billion in property damage. This set depicts the damage in Northridge the epicentral area. Event Data:
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