I was 15 living in I.E, what is now known as Jurupa, back then it was just Riverside, remember hearing the windows rattled for at least one minute that woke me up.
I was quite young for this one; six or seven. I woke up in mid-air, having been tossed out of my little bed. I ran through the shaking house into my parent's room and leapt onto their bed. My mother remembers it as "the day I discovered little boys can fly"... 😄 We shortly thereafter moved up to the Bay Area, where I lived through many more quakes, including Loma Prieta (which was surreal). But Sylmar was my "introduction" to life in California...
I was here in Los Angeles during both Sylmar and Northridge quakes. The Sylmar quake shook for a whole minute.. The Northridge quake shook for only 15 seconds . My fathers boss lived in Chatsworth during the Sylmar quake. he and his wife were standing beside their bed.. it shook so hard they could not get to each other. My sister during the Northridge quake lived up Bouquet Canyon.. They were awakened with the quake as it tossed their entire house in the air and left them several feet above their bed as the house went back down then came back up and tossed them higher.
@@sylvialupehernandez9154 The first I vividly recall was the Sylmar-San Fernando. That one shook MUCH longer than 12 seconds! Then almost two years to the day later the Point Mugu (5.8 Richter). Than the Whitter-Narrows-I had just barely started at my work when that one hit and it was quite strong. Then, there was the Sierra Madre, which was strong but more of a rolling sensation and it seemed pretty brief. And then the biggest one i ever felt, the 1992 Landers and the Big Bear about three hours later was very strong too, on a par with the 1971 Sylmar-San Fernando. But...nothing close to flipping a house in the air and then again. Like eggs in a frying pan??? That's like something out of the Simpsons...Although they were pretty violent-I remember looking at our kitchen floor and it was still shaking, and it looked blurry from the motion. If anything flipped a house into the air twice it surely would have ruptured the Van Norman dam which fortunately for those people in that area, never happened-probably as much due to the dam water level being lowered prior for some sort of water distribution issue IIRC. I lived in the south Bay for all of those until I moved far away in 1993, six months prior to the Northridge quake. That sure seemed like a real monster! It has the highest Mercali Intensity rating of any earth quake ever recorded in the United States but I'm sure the Alaskan earth quake of 1964 would be higher-they did not yet have the Mercali scale at that time.
@@steveblaugh2180 I lived was in Sherman Oaks at the time when the Northridge quake hit. I remember waking up to a very loud rumbling sound and then BOOM everything was shaking really hard and everything in our house had fallen over.
I was only 4 months old living with my parents in Fullerton. My mom reported that my crib slid from one end of the room to the other with me in it. Everyone talked about that earthquake for years afterward.
February 9, 2023..... 52 years later. My life is still affected by it. These days, my house has a 12 volt automatic power failure LED lighting in all rooms with seismic switch (installed the system a month after the 1989 Loma Prieta quake), there's a seismic shutoff on my gas meter, I do not sleep unless my pants with keys, wallet, flashlight, and belt are ready to slip on, and several sets of shoes are there ready to bail out. Also, all cars have at least 3/4 tank of gasoline in them before I'm in for the night. I installed a cable operated whole house water shutoff handle in my laundry room. The water gets shut off every time we leave the house overnight even though the HW tank is strapped in. In the Sylmar quake, I stepped in broken glass in the dark and splinters were coming out of my feet 3 months later. Never again. I had my foundation bolted and had shear panels put in years ago as well. I pay for quake insurance which is not cheap because the hammer is about to fall here in the East Bay. The Sylmar quake seared into my brain. I thought we were nuked because a transformer on a pole blew up and there was a flash of light `15 seconds into the shaking. Satan himself was clearing his throat coming from below our house for the best part of a minute.
I was 15 living in I.E, what is now known as Jurupa, back then it was just Riverside, remember hearing the windows rattled for at least one minute that woke me up.
I was quite young for this one; six or seven. I woke up in mid-air, having been tossed out of my little bed. I ran through the shaking house into my parent's room and leapt onto their bed. My mother remembers it as "the day I discovered little boys can fly"... 😄 We shortly thereafter moved up to the Bay Area, where I lived through many more quakes, including Loma Prieta (which was surreal). But Sylmar was my "introduction" to life in California...
The Sky is a good place to be when the earthquakes.
Oh I remember that one! I was in Santa Ana my birth place til 1979. I'm now 40 years in wonderful Northen Az
Wonder if Lucy Jones herself remembers that quake, she would have been 15 years old at that time.
I was here in Los Angeles during both Sylmar and Northridge quakes. The Sylmar quake shook for a whole minute.. The Northridge quake shook for only 15 seconds . My fathers boss lived in Chatsworth during the Sylmar quake. he and his wife were standing beside their bed.. it shook so hard they could not get to each other. My sister during the Northridge quake lived up Bouquet Canyon.. They were awakened with the quake as it tossed their entire house in the air and left them several feet above their bed as the house went back down then came back up and tossed them higher.
I remember those quakes and the 1987 Whittier Narrows, you might have remembred that quake Wayne.
@@sylvialupehernandez9154 The first I vividly recall was the Sylmar-San Fernando. That one shook MUCH longer than 12 seconds! Then almost two years to the day later the Point Mugu (5.8 Richter). Than the Whitter-Narrows-I had just barely started at my work when that one hit and it was quite strong. Then, there was the Sierra Madre, which was strong but more of a rolling sensation and it seemed pretty brief. And then the biggest one i ever felt, the 1992 Landers and the Big Bear about three hours later was very strong too, on a par with the 1971 Sylmar-San Fernando. But...nothing close to flipping a house in the air and then again. Like eggs in a frying pan??? That's like something out of the Simpsons...Although they were pretty violent-I remember looking at our kitchen floor and it was still shaking, and it looked blurry from the motion. If anything flipped a house into the air twice it surely would have ruptured the Van Norman dam which fortunately for those people in that area, never happened-probably as much due to the dam water level being lowered prior for some sort of water distribution issue IIRC. I lived in the south Bay for all of those until I moved far away in 1993, six months prior to the Northridge quake. That sure seemed like a real monster! It has the highest Mercali Intensity rating of any earth quake ever recorded in the United States but I'm sure the Alaskan earth quake of 1964 would be higher-they did not yet have the Mercali scale at that time.
@@steveblaugh2180 the northridge quake had a peak acceleration of 1.82 and the sylmar one had a peak acceleration of 1.25
@@tulsavorge3762 Thanks for that info. That must have been a real monster! I'm glad I wasn't living there at that time. I moved away six months prior.
@@steveblaugh2180 I lived was in Sherman Oaks at the time when the Northridge quake hit. I remember waking up to a very loud rumbling sound and then BOOM everything was shaking really hard and everything in our house had fallen over.
I was only 4 months old living with my parents in Fullerton. My mom reported that my crib slid from one end of the room to the other with me in it. Everyone talked about that earthquake for years afterward.
February 9, 2023..... 52 years later. My life is still affected by it. These days, my house has a 12 volt automatic power failure LED lighting in all rooms with seismic switch (installed the system a month after the 1989 Loma Prieta quake), there's a seismic shutoff on my gas meter, I do not sleep unless my pants with keys, wallet, flashlight, and belt are ready to slip on, and several sets of shoes are there ready to bail out. Also, all cars have at least 3/4 tank of gasoline in them before I'm in for the night. I installed a cable operated whole house water shutoff handle in my laundry room. The water gets shut off every time we leave the house overnight even though the HW tank is strapped in.
In the Sylmar quake, I stepped in broken glass in the dark and splinters were coming out of my feet 3 months later. Never again. I had my foundation bolted and had shear panels put in years ago as well. I pay for quake insurance which is not cheap because the hammer is about to fall here in the East Bay. The Sylmar quake seared into my brain. I thought we were nuked because a transformer on a pole blew up and there was a flash of light `15 seconds into the shaking. Satan himself was clearing his throat coming from below our house for the best part of a minute.
Dr. Lucy Jones knows how to speak and reassures us, unlike Dr. Barbara Ferrer.
Lucy Jones premier tectonologist in world remember Kate Hutton Charles Richter his scale mercalli
Remember it well
Like Whittier narrows quake 1987
I hope I don't live though the san andreas earthquake when that happens 😬
Homes the va hospital freeways all got damaged heavily because they werent seismic retrofitted as in pre-long Beach 1933
The Northridge of that time
She doesn’t have a clue about what she tallying about
Shut up
@@CG-jq5vu none of that
@@V4mpirella How do you know?