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Chimney damage in a residential area in the Santa Monica mountains. Pockets of similar damage each extending for one or two blocks could be found in the midst of larger areas that did not experience damage. In mountainous regions such pockets of damage are often located on ridge tops suggesting topographic amplification of the seismic waves. 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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