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Shown here is the building which replaced the Olive View Hospital. This new building performed well during the Northridge earthquake, but all of the patients had to be evacuated because of breakage of both sprinkler and chilled water lines. Light fixtures that popped from ceiling grid mounts did not fall because of safety wires. Image Credit: M. 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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