More recently, the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake (magnitude 6.9) in Northern California caused 63 deaths and approximately $6 billion in damages. In Southern California, the 1994 Northridge ...
Soft-story apartments have been a killer in past earthquakes. During the predawn magnitude 6.7 Northridge earthquake of 1994, 16 people died when their apartments collapsed. Soft-story apartments ...
The worst in modern Los Angeles history was the 6.7-magnitude Northridge earthquake in 1994, the first to strike under a major metro area since the 1930s. Highway overpasses, office buildings and ...