Wow. Lucy Jones definitely is a familiar face now. She is almost always interviewed regarding earthquakes in USA and even the world. Saw her during the 2019 South California earthquake too

These quakes were like following me wherever I'd be believe it or not. I lived in Oxnard from 85-87 and had experienced those Socal quakes during the time of the Richard Ramirez "The Night stalker" thing. I moved to SF in Dec 87 where I lived and went through the Loma Prieta in 89 and today @5:04PM will mark it's 30th anniversary. Richard Ramirez was transferred to SF too for his case/trial there. As a kid, those were definitely some of the most memorable years for me, especially when it comes to sports, it was all about the bay area, immediately after I moved to SF, The 49ers became Superbowl champs again (the team of the 80's) The SF Giants and the Oakland A's in Battle of the Bay. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly. I moved back down to Socal, SGV in Oct 91 and stayed there until 94 and had experienced those quakes there then and survived the Rodney King riot there too. I moved out of Socal to back up here in SF In May 94 and made it my permanent home just right before the OJ thing. No more moving since. Thank God and may God bless everyone! California Love! : )

I was 16 years old living in the San Fernando valley January 17, 1994, when this Earthquake happened in the early morning around 4:31a.m. It was one the scariest and strongest quake I ever experienced.

I remember it like yesterday. One of the Top Ten Life changing events of my life. Been thru many other quakes, fires, riots and more. This was to much. Said goodbye to my home and dreams 12 days later.

911: What do you want? Person panicking: EARTHQUAKE!!!

You can be a prince or a street sweeper, everyone meets the grim reaper.

I was in Calabasas at 5 and my older bro came down the stairs and yelled, “get under a door way.” I will never forget the day at such a young age. At 32, I experienced the ridgecrest earthquake, still in Calabasas. No matter what, SoCal will always be my home! 😊

I wasn’t there but I was in Fairbanks Alaska on June 10 when we had 3 earthquakes back to back. They were reported as a 7.2, 7.0, and 6.8. I couldn’t even get across the room to my baby son. They later said that the perma frost under Fairbanks saved the city. We were still having aftershocks of 5.0 when I left the following year. I never minded the cold but the earthquakes terrified me.

I was working at Disneyland at the time. I was on the graveyard shift for Fantasmic! maintenance. Me and a co-worker had poked our heads into The Country Bear Jamboree attraction when the earthquake hit. The Elvis bear started gyrating like the King himself. We went back to Tom Sawyer's island and discovered a natural gas leak on Fantasmic!. We shut the valves and the leak was repaired the next day. Also, the dragon door had started opening and slamming during the quake, so they installed earthquake pins to hold the door in place in case of another earthquake.

I been through the northridge and went through the recent ridgecrest earthquake so I pray whenever the big one happens I can get through it to.🙏🏻

They say you should have enough water, food, etc saved up for at least 72 hours. They expect you to be able to take care for 72 hours in a emergency. •Water Non-perishable food Fixed-blade knife Flashlight Waterproof lighter or matches Sleeping bag or blankets First aid kit Medication Cash Change of clothes •crank hand radio/ charger

What did one plate say to the other after the earthquake? It's your fault! No, it's YOUR fault!

I was in this quake! I lived in Palm Desert and I’ll never forget it! I was in bed and it sounded like a train was coming through the house, then my bed started rolling up and down. I crawled down the hallway cuz it and it was rolling like a roller coaster! We had a lot of damage even in Palm Desert!

THE MOST SHOCKING THING ABOUT THIS VIDEO... 33.43 look at the 110 North freeway free of traffic!!!!! Amazing!

I've seen many videos on this earthquake but this is the first time I have come upon this one. I think is the best of all, so thank you so much for posting it. You have a new subscriber.

I remember this very well. Rude awakening... Felt like a train coming through the house

Anyone here just after the 6.4 Magnitude earthquake on July 4th 2019?

My aunt was living there at the time. Her house was mostly okay, but the hallway walls/ceiling collapsed and she ended up being stuck in her bedroom and had to wait until her adult sons moved aside the rubble. She was very, very lucky.

I lived a block away from the epicenter of this quake. It wasiin Reseda not Northridge. They said Northridge so funding would be more for that area. They are right next to each other but Northridge is a more affluent area. My bed was tossed up at least 5". I have lived in CA my whole life and that was massive. But the neighbors helped everyone else in the neighborhood. I also was in the 71 earthquake. Told my friend the day before, we are going to have an earthquake soon, I could feel it.

I remember my Dad,coming in Crying because my oldest sister lived 3 blocks from CSUN, he hadnt heard from her. I had just had my first baby. My dad was frantic, "Since I had been there, where would she go?" I told him she would be fine, she will call dont panic. My sister got a hold of us through the red-cross. My Dad stood there holding my Son crying. He was happy she was alive.

I experienced this earthquake when I lived in the Hollywood area in 1994, It was the most frightening thing to have gone through. Still to this day even though I now live in TX, any loud bang or like an unrecognizable jolt causes pause - a freeze moment - till I can identify the source. Really amazing how I still react as though it could be an earthquake even though I know its not possible to occur where I now reside.

i was in the 1994 Northridge earthquake

Before Northridge, we used to have a major earthquake every 8 to 10 years. Northridge, Whittier, Sylmar, now people under 30 have no idea what that feels like. Maybe that's a good thing?

Damn I remember the Northridge quake. I was 8 years old at the time. My sister woke me up. At first I thought "Why? I don't wanna go to school" but when she said it was an earthquake, it freaked me out. Still does.

Thanks for this video. I remember all 3 mentioned earthquakes. The Sylmar, Whitter Narrows, and Northridge. Northridge was the worst. All 3 also had aftershocks galore. The shaking also produced a phenomenon like sea legs. You feel sick from the motion.

I lived in LA most of my childhood. I moved to Oregon, then came March of 1993. I had never had an earthquake catapult me out of bed, and structurally damage my home. No going back to sleep while the quake gently rocks your bed. We have Cascadia to worry about, forecasted to be a magnitude 9. Preps, food water, basic sanitation in place outside in a very flexible kennel. It's not going to be pretty.

Thank God we survived....was a very scary situation.....made me learn how to appreciate every DAY of life.

I lived in Pico Rivera. Felt like a train hitting the house and the roaring noise from the earth movement was so loud. Couldn't get out of bed and when I did I couldn't stand. Things were flying straight out into the air. I thought it was the big one. I can hear the neighbors screaming and transformers blowing. It felt strong here and officially one person died in Pico Rivera from the earthquake when the garage door fell on him.

I read about this quake in Bruce Springsteen's autobiography, "Born to Run."

Lived on Woodley St. in Van Nuys when this happened and I was 12 yo. I still remember this day as if it happened yesterday. Most terrifying experience for all of us. It actually brings tears to my eyes watching this video and all the others. My dad still has the VHS tape of this aftermath. Everyone seeking shelter at Woodley Park and all the apartments destroyed by the quake. Another disaster to look into, the flooding of the Sepulveda Dam...crazy experiences...history.

My sister lived out in San Fernando valley when this happened I was plowing snow in Missouri when the first reports of this earthquake came across the radioI tried for 2 days to get a hold of my sister and you could not get a connection on the telephone you would either get a busy signal or some kind of verbal outage...

1:58 Right, so there's houses collapsing, the ground's shaking, buildings are on fire and this guy's like "Umm... my plumbing's gonna need some work, can you send the fire brigade?". REALLY?!

My mother told me about this earthquake growing up, im 20 now. She used to tell us the scary thing about this earthquake was that instead of a shake or a roll the earthquake were sharp jolts

I was less than five minutes from the epicenter and it was crazy. I was only 4 but this day is the earliest, most vivid, memory I have. All the cheaply made rock/concrete and metal stairs leading the second story of the apartments I lived in collapsed so ladders were used. People (and even some stores!) were selling water bottles for outrageous prices at 5 to 10 dollars a bottle. It was a day I will never forget.

It’s been awhile since I’ve thought of this quake. I was in Simi Valley then and I thought a train was coming through our house. We slept on the front lawn for like 4 days after. I was 16 and we took my buddies car out to the SF Valley to see the damage ourselves. It was like a war zone. Crazy times.

I remember this so vividly. I woke up with this loud noise and everything moving around. Water was sold at high price.

I was in this earthquake...in my mothers womb, but it still counts!

I remember that one vividly. Thrust fault if I remember. The Northridge Meadows, the freeway, the fires, and that parking structure being bad

It was my senior year of high school and I had just fallen asleep on the couch after playing Super Mario on my Nintendo when the earth began to shake. It felt like it was moving up and down, side to side at the same time, my body was practically bouncing up and down on the couch as the earth moved.

17:56 "The plates bump and grind as they rub against each other...." Sounds like an R Kelly song.

I lived in a little trailer by the Riverside river bed. This earthquake woke me up and it kept going and going and going... it was really scary.

My parents were living in La Verne California at the time and boy it was strong.

My company was hit twice. In 1971 and 1994. The first time I was a teen and went by it on a bus without understanding what happened there. The company was studied to determine how they got up operating so quick. In ‘94, I couldn’t come in for a week. When I did, I came in for 1 day cleanup before going on a business trip for a week. I came back and returned to a commute that was faster than before the quake

So glad I stopped going to Cal State Northridge in '91. I remember all these new buildings they were putting up at the time on the campus. BTW, I do remember the Sylmar Earthquake of '71. Same magnitude. I was four. It was a doozie.

I lived in San Diego and you could feel small quakes a few a month and I would say whelp the earth farted again (mind you I was a child then) I freaked out on my first time experiencing one and a person said that to calm me down and I believed it when big one came I yelled out dam you you just had to let out a big fart on my turn I was playing Janga at time and all the people laughed and someone said I made there day another thanked for the comedic relief I only found out what a earth quake was a few months after and I ended up scared every quake after and I blame my school for that sometimes ignorance is bliss

I do remember how ever the after shocks as a kid I remember seeing my lights swinging from an after shock and I remember the signal light sign swaying

I'm surprised they didn't talk more about the 1903 SF earthquake

0:40 actual Northridge earthquake footage, that’s rare for those days when we turned everything off at nighttime!

"911 what's your emergency?" "EARTHQUAKE!" "4 real oh snap where at? We send police now PEWEWEWEWEWEEW"

I was there, we lost just about everything, we were lucky to escape with our lives and one dog, all the cats escaped and only two came back

I've subscribed to Dutchsinse and he does earthquake forecasting NOT EARTHQUAKE PREDICTIONS and is very good at his job. thank you dutch, you're tops in my books mate. it is a great idea to subscribe to his channel on youtube or twitch. goooooo dutch

They always tell you to hide in the strongest part of structures but reality is if you can get out, get out. Nothing can crush you in open space outside

I remember this day like yesterday. Scariest day of my life🥺 hate quakes to this day

I was stationed in Port Hueneme at the time. Wicked earthquake

I hate to sound trite, but thank goodness that it happened so early in the morning. If it had hit during the day when the streets and the shops were full, the loss of life would have been so much worse. God bless the emergency responders and civilians who came to the rescue. God bless the friends and families of those who could not be rescused.

I made a hell of a lot of money rebuilding from the Mexican border to Los Angeles. We had to retrofit everything.

I don't see nothing wrong with a little bump and grind - San Andreas

On Saturday July 4 and Sunday July 5th 2020 will mark the 1st Anniversary of the back to back Earthquakes of a 6.4 and the 7.1 in Ridgecrest CA

This video is like time traveling for me!!!! I was only 11 short miles from Northridge! It’s was dark because the sun wasn’t up yet, and there was no electricity from the quake, it was a terrifying bit of time waiting for light while 5.3 aftershocks were happening. The sun didn’t bring much relief when the extent of the damage became visible! My building had sunk for lack of a better description, and we had to kick our way out from the lower level the only exit route, it took three men after some effort to free us. I still do everything to stay out of Los Angeles.

I moved to Northride/Van Nuys in 97 from Chile and never have I been in an earthquake larger than 5.

I wonder if this is what inspired one of my favorite catastrophy movies "VOLCANO".

I remember all of them. The Whittier one woke me up when my speaker fell on my head. Northridge I was in Helmet. Felt it out there big time.

I remember this earthquake. I was three and I remember it vividly. I freaked out because my mom was in the hospital in Northridge. She was being evacuated. I remember screaming and saying she was dead.

I have lived thru several Ca.. quakes...terrifying. Now I live in Midwest....and felt the recent quake in St Louis!

I had an Aunt living on the third floor of a 5 story apartment complex from 1948 it pancake d down on itself. Thank God when it decided to go the building was empty and no one was hurt from her building even being with out shoes. That came after making it through the Rodney King riots at her church years prior

subduction zone where 1 plate goes under the other are the most destructive. a strike slip fault quake would be lucky to cause a jolt stronger than a 7.5 but a subduction plate can cause quakes as strong as 9.0-9.5 or higher. subduction zones also create mountains and volcanoes

I’ve been through 3: Slymar-San Fernando 1971, Whittier-Narrows 1987, Northridge 1994. I was in San Francisco in July-August of 1989 and flew back to LA and watched the World Series on tv like everyone else and heard broadcaster Al Michaels say: I tell ya what I think were having an earth…silence and picture knocked off the air. Next images besides Candlestick Park was the Bay Bridge 50ft section of the top deck laying on top of the lower deck and the Nimitz freeway completely collapsed!

It's not JUST a kitty...

In the 90's I experienced a 5.1 as a kid in Tacoma Washington as a kid. Lasted less then 45 seconds, houses in the area rode the quake fine, only a few collapsed chimneys, heard of no fatalities. Our house just had 1 or 2 cracks in the plaster. But mom spent 2 weeks sanding out the micro cracks in the wood floor. I remember the floor undulating like water ripples. Scary stuff.

0:58 Dumb lady called 911 just to tell them there was an earthquake. Are you injured? No. Do you need an ambulance? No. Fire Department? No, but there is an earthquake. What did she want 911 to do? I'm pretty sure they knew there was an earthquake.

I was expecting my company’s regional security manager to fly from LA to PHX to audit my records. I offered to pick him up at the airport after his 50 minute flight, but he said he would rather rent a car and meet me at 9 am. I was at the facility around 8:30 a to make sure everything was organized I hadn’t heard anything about the quake nor did I get a call on my cell. I was never to hear from the guy nor did we ever get my audit.

I was living in Northridge when the quake hit. 3rd floor apartment on Roscoe and Balboa. I remember like it was yesterday, screaming while the earth shook. Awful!!

Dude! I was 3 years old at that time... I did not remember how bad it was. Now I am looking up disaster preparedness all these years later. I don't know what to say about this...

I lived thru this. No one posted anything to Facebook.

On MLK Day '94 when the 6.7 Magnitude Earthquake wakes up Northridge at 4:31 am

I was hoping this documentary would give me more recent data. I lived through the Northridge quake and moved to the mid-west US to avoid any further problems from earthquakes. After 26 years a 6.5 magnitude should have occurred somewhere in the L.A. area, judging by the frequency of big quakes in S. California. Now I learn there's a bigger fault directly under downtown L.A. that hasn't moved in millennia...I'm very glad I moved and dearly hope everyone there is safe. The 'ground turning to quicksand' doesn't appeal to me either. The documentary treated the very destructive Northridge quake as 'run of the mill', and to reasonably expect a much larger quake fairly soon. Time to start moving, people, and don't go to Detroit or New Orleans, or you'll be switching deck chairs on the Titanic.

"We're having an earthquake, RELAX!" Yeeeeeah, cause THAT'S what u do!

I need some advice what is the best thing to do.Those rescue workers are amazing

also thanks. i remember all three also and the easter morning quake south of el centro i have not heard anybody mention that when the big on happens.. its going to shake for minutes.. not 15 seconds like northridge or a minute like sylmar. my sister lived in bouquet canyon.. she and her husband were tossed into the air twice during northridge. worst thing. all the reservoirs above santa clarita. and perhaps the ones in the inland empire..will the dams hold for minutes of shaking.

Northridge /Ridgecrest is hit once again July 4th & 5th 2019. People say living in Oklahoma's tornado alley is crazy. I'll take a tornadoe over an earthquake any day.

At 7:33amEDT, on Mon., January 17, 1994, I was taking a shower, getting ready to go to work in Bethesda, MD when I heard on the radio(WTOP 1500AM, Washington,D.C.) that an earthquake has struck the Los Angeles area. WOW!

This earthquake made me genuinely feel I was going to die. The moment my family and I huddled together and we heard our dishes crashing down on the floor is still so vivid.

Great documentary. I was in West L.A.

This was significant, but hardly a monster quake.

Daybreak Thousand Oaks Ca. Northridge quake. I go to turn off the gas outside because I could see now. All the dads in the neighborhood are turning their gas off too. We wave, ask if they're all right. My house is ankle deep in wall hangings, the wall, everything on any shelf is on the floor. Huge dish cabinet knocked over, chimney fell over. No hot water for a week. Ralph's supermarket front had broken windows, sandbags and shotguns. You told the manager what you needed, they would get it then we would negotiate a price. A big ol' aftershock hit & made everybody (in unison in a long line) slowly move away from the building. I went into my work, a Dr's office. Literally up to our knees in building material and what was thrown off the shelves - a lot of supplies!

Three years before I was born, my mother recalls trying to run down the hall of a Santa Monica apartment and being tossed from wall to wall while my father was thrown out of bed. They both worried the building would give way and trap them in the underground parking lot four stories below them.

SAVE THE KITTY!!!! 💔

January 17 1994: Los Angeles January 17 1995: Kobe, Japan

The Coalinga earthquake wiped out the entire downtown, it was old fashioned b2 story brick buildings, a really old-west looking town with wooden sidewalks! About half the homes and businesses in town were destroyed, some never rebuilt, like the "lacy" restaurant, which is sad, place had wonderful food!

" 911 what is your emergency? " " EARTHQUAKE!!! " " Holy shit! Were??? " " IN LOS ANGELES!!!! "

*Calls 911 "IT'S AN EARTHQUAKE!" Lady, I'm pretty sure they know...

That was only 6 seconds? Felt like a full minute.

i was 4 when this happened. and i lived in northridge at this time .

iv never knew I loved geography this much

saw this at school.. scary stuff o_o

15:16 even in earthquake they still use that old timey accent :D

What?! Why is this the first time I’ve ever heard of the 1933 LA quake??

Excellent video.

I was nearly 11 when this hit. Car alarms went off and power went out.

People in Los Angeles weren't actually as ignorant and/or uncaring of earthquakes as the narrator implies when describing the 1933 Long Beach earthquake and its aftermath. There was ample historical record of earthquakes throughout California, and as just one example, the 1925 Long Beach quake, to the north of LA on the coast, had caused notable damage. It was just the normal human denial that such things can actually happen to "me".