Any SoCal members remember this day in '71?

[Andy Perreault]

When the big Sylmar earthquake hit early in the morning? I was only 8 years old, but I sure remember it well.

Andy

 

[rwilliams4]

I do remember it!

I had forgotten that this is the 31st anniversary. I was living in Seal Beach and it sure shook everything up. We didn't have any damage;just to our nerves. That was a long time ago. Lots of water under the bridge.

 

[HEMI®Dart]

I think I can remember seeing it on the news. I was only 8 too.



Was there a Hospital? that got damaged pretty bad?

 

[TomGolden]

I was only 5 at that time, but I remember it very well. I grew up in South Gate, now live in NorCal.



Tom

 

[Andy Perreault]

Originally posted by HEMI®Dart

Was there a Hospital? that got damaged pretty bad?

Yes, a hospital in Sylmar (at the northern end of the San Fernando Valley, just north of L. A. ) collapsed. I think it was a V. A. hospital. Also, some freeway overpasses collapsed.

Andy

 

[Ram4Sam]

1971 Shaker

I was a junior in high school and remember that one. I think it was in the morning. I live just a few miles from probably the biggest fault in California, the San Andreas fault. So we usually feel just about all of them that happen in So Cal. If I remeber right, it was a hospital that got flattened. In 1994, there was another one in the same area, check out this picture

http://www.scecdc.scec.org/nri5.html

How would you like to have been driving that truck!!!!



Sam

 

[Steve Campbell]

Hemi(R) Dart

Who is your "new" avitar?

 

[RonaldLarson]

Oh yeah!

Lived in Garden Grove, right next to Seal Beach. The house rotated and moved up and down at the same time. I could not get out of bed! My wife rolled off the bed and crawled on her knees to the garage to get the new Lab pup. The quake lasted for 59 seconds, which seemed like 59 minutes.

The 805 freeway interchange was under construction near Sylmar, and the overpasses under construction looked like they had been bombed. Yes, the VA hospital was destroyed, it was directly on top of the fault that moved.

Did you know that LA LA land has over three hundred undetected quakes per day?!

Ron

 

[High Voltage]

YES i do... ...

 

[Doubleclutch]

Oh My!

Thanks guys for making me feel so OLD! Was working graveyards at Diablo that morning. Being bored, we plotted the speed of the P wave by measuring the distance from an aerial map to Sylmar, the time strike from the "system disturbance" alarm, and when the tank bolted to the floor in containment started to shake. Turned out to be around 600 mph. Really bored!

 

[KKaiser]

I was thirteen,l iving in San Diego at the time. I was asleep in my top bunkand was awakened by the shaking. Checked out who could have been in the lower bunk. Noone was there so promptly went back to sleep. Didn't find out 'til later that it wasn't a dream!



Kent

 

[HDH]

I was 10 yrs old.

And we lived in Hanford Ca (near NAS lemore) at the time.

Felt it big time 200 miles away!

Doug.

 

[MikeR]

Los Osos! I'm suprised to see this many Central Coasters on the board. Hey Doubleclutch, do you know Vic DePrater? He worked at Diablo too. His Son and I are good friends.



-Mike (formerly of Lompuke)

 

[HEMI®Dart]

Steve,



Princess Diana Spencer



I loved her

 

[tcourse]

Was stationed at March AFB, Riverside at the time.

Not much fun.



TC

 

[Doubleclutch]

Another escapee!

Hi MikeR, have an email on the way. Wish we had a chapter down here, but nobody seems to STAY AROUND.

 

[baby.driver]

18 yrs. old living in Inglewood and I slept through it!



Jay

 

[tgbol]

I was living in Whittier at the time. The shaking woke me up just in time to see the stack of 8 track tapes on the desk fall on me!