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Seismic joints were separated, and pounding of the blocks took place. Structural damage was sufficient to cause temporary evacuation of some buildings in the complex, while non-structural damage by itself was extensive enough to cause closure of several buildings. The non-structural damage was generally greater in upper stories of buildings. This building was also damaged in the 1971 earthquake. Image Credit: Mehmet Celebi. 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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