God, I still remember my sister waking me up and I didn't want to because I didn't want to go to school (which I then realized I didn't have school because it was Martin Luther King Day)
@Zero543210ify at this pace hell yea frm the one here on the east coast in august and the one in oklahoma last weekend yea its deff gonna happen again
I was in Highland Park (near South Pasadena) asleep in a 4th-floor condo. It shook me awake and falling the wall clock, popped the battery loose, recording the time it hit at 04:31, and it broke the glass face.
The clock's still running today, but still without a glass face. A perpetual reminder of that day.
Had a temp job that morning and didn't find-out it was cancelled until I got to the job site downtown *grrr*.
I lived a block away from Northridge. i woke up cause of the earthquake and I could not stand up. I bounced all over the place. i was 8. Our ceiling fell through our apartment and had to live at the park for a while.
I was 10 at the time and live near the Echo Park area. I live upstairs in a pretty old house and I can still remember how the house was creaking and windows banging and things falling off the shelves. It was pretty scary. I can still remember my mom mumbling "omg it's going to collapse it's going to collapse!" but good thing the home stood. Lots of cracks and the chimney fell and crashed into the neighbor's bedroom. I remember just hanging out under a table all day because of all the aftershocks
if u were in la during that time and u were here for a month u were one of the small percentage of people that experienced the most earthquakes in the world ! cause it was shaking everyday !
2 minutes before I was laying in bed thinking about the sad state of my life after my dad had passed away and struggling with an itty bitty meth problem having a conversation with god( thinking to myself god doesn't exist and i needed some kind of proof.....you know the rest
i was 6 years old in my grandma's house i remember my grandmother woke me up and my big sisters to and my little brother was with my parents then my parents came to my parents and blah blah but i didnt feel the earthquake i was to deep into sleep but i was scared tho becuz i saw all the people nerves now i am 22 yrs old hehehe
I was 9 , living in Panorama City .. I remember this like it was Yesterday , we use to sleep in the parking lot of our apartments for weeks .. this was really traumatizing for me .. i still cant get over it and i'm 26 now , I'm even more afraid because i have my own kids now , and I remember my parents struggling with us in those days .. there was no food no electricity .. we couldn't go inside the apartments to take a shower we had to shower in the parking lots ..
I was in high school and we had the day off because it was a holiday. So I was in bed, half asleep listening to the radio when I felt it. It started as a rolling motion, but then just kept getting stronger and stronger, to the point where I felt I should get out of bed, and was doing so when it finally stopped. Luckily, nothing broke and we still had power (I live in the Pasadena area).
I remember waking up to a small tremor, then it turned into violent shaking. I get into the doorway and look across to the bathroom and notice the blinds on the window swinging back and forth almost about to fall off, then the bathroom door slammed shut. it was complete darkness and shaking, the noise that quake made was so scary. i'll never forget that night nor the week of atfershocks we had. living through historic events can be frightening.
dude that's funny shit i didn't feel that fuckin earthquake i don't know what's goin on with me! i was somewhere in csun i didn't feel that shit that's strange lolz
i was 3 years old and my brother was 1 when the door collapsed and my father had to grab a sledgehammer to get in but when he walked in my brother was still asleep like nothing ever happened and i was already with my parents before it happened.
What's scary is that most building in the valley have underground parking apartments that are 2 story high and they say those are the one that can't handle strong earthquakes.
i was in downey when this quake happened and it literally threw me out of my bed.. i woke up on the floor. i showed this to my 10 year old son because we were talking about earthquakes. he hasn't really experienced one like the whittier narrows earthquaken or northridge.. .. northridge was crazy! and it felt like a lot more than 6.7 to me!
My sister is only 3 years old and I'm only ten years old when it happens, let me tell you it's scary as hell!! I'm so scared that I almost puke! My dad grab me and my mom grab my little sister and took us to down stairs. of course we lived in Apartment in Thousand Oaks. Then we turn on the tv and watch the news when another quake hits. My mom is like "Lets go outside but my dad insist we should go under table. so we did, and but what we're concern is water heater breaking and ....
@Femalechaos2011 burns three of us alive. we went under table to be safe and lots of things falling and I'm worrying about my fish in the small plastic tank on top of my dresser fearing it falling killing my pet fish but luckily it didn't. Thank god that water heater didn't break because if it did we won't be alive and I won't be on here. It's really scary one time I'm too scared to use the bathroom so I pissed myself on the blanket.
@Angel223333 my cousin was actually born during the earthquake .. i was 7 and it was the scariest thing i have ever experience.... still live in L.A ... just waiting for the big one
I lived in Northridge when this happened, probably 2 miles from the Northridge Meadows apartments and a couple of blocks from CSUN. Once the sun came up there were dozens of students walking along the street in their sleep clothes with blankets around them looking like they were in shock. I was. Everyone was driving like they were crazy. No electricity, no phone, no gas. For months I drove to and from work with the signs of what happened...and it became normal.
I was around 15. It was one of the many rude awakenings the earth has given me. It would not stop shaking. I sat up in the bed but still in it. I rode it out like that.
i was 10 living in koreatown, i remember my neighborhood was tent city for like a month due to damages to the buildings. We were allowed to go in to shower and eat but we slept outside, it was crazy. I remember living on the 3rd floor and running out and seeing the next door building swaying into my building.
I was 9yrs old living in Newport Beach. I would take an earthquake on the west coast than a tornado or hurricane any day. You are more likely to survive an earthquake with all the building codes there are.
i was aout four or five at the time but i knew what was going on we lived in northridge hills and i went to the kitchen for a drink i looked out the glass window and nothing wrong as i was walking back to my room something threw me to the ground near the tv i quickly stood up only to be thrown back everything started shaking and i heard my parents and little baby sister screaming i suddenly realized it was an earthquake i crawled to the door and stood there motionles
I didn't feel this one- my Dad brought all three of us kids into the living room. I had no idea what was going on. We thought it was cool to be sleeping in the living room- until they turned on the news and I realized my dad was actually scared- the most scared I'd ever seen him. I can still remember the glare of the TV set, all five of us huddled together on the carpet. We didn't get any damage but the memory will never leave.
i am now living in bloomfield, mo. but at that time i was living in port hueneme, ca. i was 12, dad grabbed my leg and said get up we are having an earthquake. i will never forget it.....
had started to dream that everything was shaking. I woke up to find that everything WAS shaking. A dresser with a tv on it fell over, the dresser missing me by a few inches, but the tv set falling on my arm. Free myself from under the television. Can't find shoes. Decide to leave bedroom anyway. Open the door. Get on the floor. Everybody walk the dinosaur.
Seriously though. Leave my bedroom without shoes. Broken glass all over hallway. -_-" <--- mfw Keep shoes next to your bed. I mean it!
I remember being in that earthquake. I was 4 and we were getting ready to move up to wyoming. My dad was already up there and it was my sister me and my mom that was left in california and i remember waking up and the little tv had fallen on my sister and mom came running in and next we ran outside and we all sat by the light post in the middle of the street and i remember mom and a couple neighbors going back into the house later after it was safe and getting food for us to eat. it was scary.
@edgarsaenz California has some of the strongest civil engineering codes, and best civil engineerings in the world. Japan isn't far behind, especially with their modern buildings, but a lot of the buildings are old and earthquakes were not taken into consideration when they were constructed.
i was in camarillo state hospital when this happened. 12 years old. i remember we all woke up and every kid in the cottage was screaming WOOHOO!!! YEAH!!! then we saw what it did to northridge....
my 2 aunties and grandma was in the earthquake my auntie was at work and the windows burst and she the sidewalks waving and my grandma was at home and she ran outside and she tried to get here truck out of the garage b/c she was scared that the apartment building would collapse
i was only three so i dont remember an accordin to my parents we were in mexico an the rest of the fam was here in sylmar an we came back the day after an they saw the damage
I lived in Chatsworth at the time and ended up sleeping in a tent on my lawn for about a week. I woke up when I heard the howling of the neighborhood dogs about a minute before it hit. The sound of that quake will always be burned into my brain.
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I hope an earthquake destroys both Los Angeles and San Francisco. Humans are stupid to build huge cities on fault lines. In 1906 they found out what happens when a quake hits a major city and instead of evacuating the city and closing it down they rebuilt it and now San Francisco is about 5 times bigger. It's like those people that build houses 15 or 20 feet from rivers or the ocean and then whine when their house is washed out or flooded. Shouldn't have built it so close you morons.
@CainmosniMirrored "You Hope", well you better hope nothing terrible happens to you where you live or might be, because Karma is a Bitch when it happens.
@CainmosniMirrored Yet, you say such a stupid thing yourself. Your lack of understanding and compassion makes you say such insensitive, awful, moronic things. You wish people to die? Do you hate yourself that much that you actually wish yourself dead? Apparently so. Good luck to you in life.
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@Zzazzaman Any disaster that can wipe out such greedy and resource hungry cities like San Fran and LA is welcomed by me. And yes, I do wish people to die. The human species is destructive, violent, narcissistic and we can't get along with one another. America has one of the highest crime rates in the world despite the freedoms and comforts we have. Losing a piece of the population will only make things better for the rest of us.
@CainmosniMirrored You sad, pathetic, mealy-mouthed little troll. Nothing better to do with your time than come here and make disparaging, insensitive & fucking moronic comments, assuming in your oh-so-enlightened state of supreme wisdom that ALL human beings are bad by nature and therefore deserve to die. Who fucked you up as a child? Your parents? Your peers? Were you born with an extra chromosome? Get professional help while you still have some semblance of your mind left. Cretin.
@oliasdoug The majority of humans are bad by nature. The population of the world is out of control and if nothing is done, there wont be any resources left to sustain us. If we took the world population down to about 2 billion that would be perfect. Bring the US population down to about 85 million and we could all survive comfortably and crime would be drastically reduced. More people equal more problems, so if masses of people have to die to ensure survival of the species than fine with me.
My mom and me and my dad were in the 1994 earthquake, in Northridge. I was a baby at the time, and my mom said that I was bouncing up and down in the crib, while she was trying to get me, And she was also bouncing up and down too (and she was not your thinnest at the time.) she hurt herself, getting me, and had glass dig in her foot, which has left a scar to this day. Our hearts really go out to the Japanese right now, and we'll keep them in our prayers. Our hearts ache for them.
@MarkClarkCanogaPark but theres a difference. 8.9 but it was pretty far away under the sea. the kobe quake was 7.2 yet it destroyed the whole city cause the epicenter was right under it. same with the northridge quake, the epicenter as under the population, so the shaking would be much more intense. I was in the northridge quake too, scariest moment of my life. i mean it's still a MAJOR earthquake for japan, but the tsunami caused MUCH more damage than the quake itself
@Abdurahman1234567890 the epicenter was about as far away from Japan as Simi Valley is from Los Angeles! Not that far!! The Northridge EarthQuake damaged buildings in Hollywood, Freeway in Santa Monica etc. they didn't have to be in the epicenter!! and it was 100x's bigger than the Northridge Quake!! the reason it didn't damage as many buildings is because Japan has the BEST Built Earthquake resistant buildings in the WORLD!
i was 10 years old and remember it pretty well, I remember I felt after shock after aftershock. I did not go to school for a week. Now I attend California State University Northridge and I feel it could happen again. Its crazy to think that this school was once destroyed by the quake. My prayers to those in Japan that have lost family members and friends.
I wasn't in this earthquake, but I was in the October 17, 1989 Loma earthquake. I remember that day like it was yesterday, and I was alone. Ours was a 7.1 and I don't even want to imagine what a 8.9 quake feels like. My heart and prayers go out to the people of Japan.
I too lived in Northridge during this earthquake. My house was destroyed, a red tag put on the door. I will NEVER forget the sound...never more terrified in my life and I grew up in Los Angeles! All my prayers go out to the Japanese people, I know the terror but an 8.9 earthquake? Unimaginable.
i think anyone who was raised in Southern California had the unfortunate opportunity of living through the 94' Northridge quake. I myself was less that 10 miles from the epicenter and remember that day like it was yesterday. it was Martin Luther King's Bday and everyone remembers that because it was a Sunday night to Monday and those of us who had school always loved those monday holidays that allowed you to stay up late and enjoy your Sunday. Ya well I dont think anyone enjoyed that holiday.
i had just arrived at my cousin's house in san fernando from vacation when it hit. when we ran outside, it was pitch black and you could hear explosions coming from the sylmar area. i thought it was the end of the world
I was 10 at this time and had spent the night at my uncle's home. I recall waking up because my cousin fell off the top bunk, but I thought he has simply rolled out of bed, so I turned over and went back to sleep.
My dad was a truck driver and had just driven over an overpass when it totally collapsed behind him.
I was 23 yrs old and living in Bell when it hit. According to the US/California EQ seismic map, Bell was one of the cities that shook the hardest. And boy did it ever...my door was closed, but is was shaking like something outta a horror movie. That door scared me more than the E.Q itself.
I lived in Glendale at the time. I remember hearing the car alarms go off and then it sounded like a 18 wheeler truck crashing into the house. The house seemed to violently shake forever. I really thought it was the end. I still get jumpy when I hear car alarms.
i was almost 4 years old..the earthquake literally tramatized me i had to learn how to walk and talk again..til this day im horrified of earthquakes even the small ones i freak out
i was seven when i was right in the middle of this. still remember the morning it happened, was a day before my birthday. knocked every single dish out of the cabinets and a entire bookshelf of encylopedia's fell ontop of my mother
I was lying in my bed when it happened. I had to go to work that morning, even though it was Martin Luther King Day, and I thought it was my dad shaking my bed to wake me up. When I realized what happened I ran to my closet door and stood in that until the shaking stopped. After the initial shock I got dressed and ran outside to check the gas meter. I did go to work, but the lights were out and they wound up sending us home.
i was nine and asleep in a bunker bed when all of a sudden it started and it shook the beds soo hard i almost fell off. i remember waking up to everything on the floor while my parents grabbed me. we camped outside bc of all the after shock's
this was one crazy earthquake! I was 11 years old and I remember it well! My dog was sleeping in my room and moments before the quake, she started acting weird and scratching at my door. The shaking was insane and I could hear stuff breaking in the house. I just lay in my bed waiting for it to end. I remember hearing transformers blowing up aound the neighborhood.
I was right around the corner from the Northridge Meadows (across the street from CSUN), and couldn't believe this was happening. It was my last year of college, and was in my apartment as I scrambled trying to get down 3 stories amidst all the aftershocks. I couldn't believe it when I saw the 3 story building collapse into 2. It was the worst thing I've ever seen with my own eyes, as they pulled bodies out of the buildings. Thankful for life, as I reflect on this today.
I was 1 and a half when this happened. I was in my crib and I was rolling around the room hanging on (eyes wide) when my mom finally got to my room and grabbed me and my brother. Someone in our apartment complex had to kick our front door in because it was jammed & my dad, mom, brother and I got out as fast as we could.
i was negative 2 months when this happened. my mom was pregnant and with the earthquake she fell to the floor and luckily she didn't land on her stomach or else i wouldn't be here today. im grateful.
I was on I-5 when the highway collapsed in front of me. You will see photos not show in this video, which show a semi truck on the edge & highway broke apart, I was right behind him which put me about 30' from going off the end, we were over the old canyon highway about 60' up. My 27' motor home went off the pavement & bounced side to side before righting itself, rolled over, good thing it was dark & didn't know how high up we were. Pavement dropped 1' & spread 1' apart. Almost died, miracle !
Unbelievable. I can't believe it. I'm an Aussie and the first time I ever went to the US was when I was 5 when this disaster struck. We'd just left LA to Las Vegas. We missed it by 1 day.
thumbs up if you expirence this!!!
David945361 2 months ago
Thumbs Up If You're From The Valley !! (:
cooltim11 2 months ago 4
I was 2 when this happened but i dont remember anything...
Oregon felt the quake?? Holy shit...
KingLewi992 2 months ago
@KingLewi992 me too.
sweetsteph3 2 months ago
At the end, it says were was i. Well i was in a very tight situation. I was in my dads 'areas'.
xD
Anyway, looked seriouse , and ive just found at that i have to homework on earthquakes , so this be a great help - thanks for uploeding.
C0braTHCmc 2 months ago
I remember I was -4 years old.
TheRobertShow12 3 months ago
God, I still remember my sister waking me up and I didn't want to because I didn't want to go to school (which I then realized I didn't have school because it was Martin Luther King Day)
MissMurder85 3 months ago
We are only days away from one bigger, god be with us all
classicspaservice 3 months ago
I was nine years old when this happened. We lived in Pasedena then, and I remember being literally thrown out of bed.
MoonCrashed 3 months ago
it's going to happpen again
Zero543210ify 4 months ago
@Zero543210ify at this pace hell yea frm the one here on the east coast in august and the one in oklahoma last weekend yea its deff gonna happen again
dannydollarfan1 3 months ago
I remember i was like 5 or6 and we had to sleep on the yard for like a week :(
jasminearanivar 4 months ago
i was asleep. i was 2 1/2 when it happened.
cjoymc91 4 months ago
I lived one city over in Van Nuys when this happened. It was scary.
MrGeassR2 4 months ago
I was in Highland Park (near South Pasadena) asleep in a 4th-floor condo. It shook me awake and falling the wall clock, popped the battery loose, recording the time it hit at 04:31, and it broke the glass face.
The clock's still running today, but still without a glass face. A perpetual reminder of that day.
Had a temp job that morning and didn't find-out it was cancelled until I got to the job site downtown *grrr*.
RingSight91 4 months ago
i wasn't even born yet..........
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AcFox100 4 months ago
Where was I? In my mother's womb...
sammissymoo 4 months ago
I lived a block away from Northridge. i woke up cause of the earthquake and I could not stand up. I bounced all over the place. i was 8. Our ceiling fell through our apartment and had to live at the park for a while.
DODGERTHINKBLUE 4 months ago
i'll never forget this earthquake...i was 7 years old...
SaturnProds 4 months ago
@SaturnProds 19 thought it was Armageddon :( total therapy moment :P
sedona74 4 months ago
my cousin almost died in that earthquake
lego3834 5 months ago
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I was 10 at the time and live near the Echo Park area. I live upstairs in a pretty old house and I can still remember how the house was creaking and windows banging and things falling off the shelves. It was pretty scary. I can still remember my mom mumbling "omg it's going to collapse it's going to collapse!" but good thing the home stood. Lots of cracks and the chimney fell and crashed into the neighbor's bedroom. I remember just hanging out under a table all day because of all the aftershocks
lowincash 5 months ago
if u were in la during that time and u were here for a month u were one of the small percentage of people that experienced the most earthquakes in the world ! cause it was shaking everyday !
PLISKEN12 5 months ago
Haha weird shit , I was born on this day . The earthquake cause my momma for her water to break and give birth to me ! LOL
So now my family teases me that I was almost born in a park lol
But Luckily my mom made it to the hospital. I'm their earthquake baby <3
LOL
TheCocacola6 5 months ago
@TheCocacola6 Ummm i dont really find that funny .
kkgirl300 4 months ago
@kkgirl300 Umn , okay no one asked you ? lol
TheCocacola6 4 months ago
@TheCocacola6 Well obviously you posted the comment for everyone to see , so im stateing my opinion . Thats what happens when you talk to much .
kkgirl300 4 months ago
@kkgirl300 Ohh okay , well if you don't have nothing nice to say don't say it . Dang easy as that !
TheCocacola6 4 months ago
@TheCocacola6 obviously i said what i had to say :-/ .....
kkgirl300 4 months ago
2 minutes before I was laying in bed thinking about the sad state of my life after my dad had passed away and struggling with an itty bitty meth problem having a conversation with god( thinking to myself god doesn't exist and i needed some kind of proof.....you know the rest
MrATRAIN1974 5 months ago
I love Bee Gees Night Fever, but this is crazy!!!
TinyRoseTamer 5 months ago
i was 6 years old in my grandma's house i remember my grandmother woke me up and my big sisters to and my little brother was with my parents then my parents came to my parents and blah blah but i didnt feel the earthquake i was to deep into sleep but i was scared tho becuz i saw all the people nerves now i am 22 yrs old hehehe
JewishArabfood 6 months ago
I was 9 , living in Panorama City .. I remember this like it was Yesterday , we use to sleep in the parking lot of our apartments for weeks .. this was really traumatizing for me .. i still cant get over it and i'm 26 now , I'm even more afraid because i have my own kids now , and I remember my parents struggling with us in those days .. there was no food no electricity .. we couldn't go inside the apartments to take a shower we had to shower in the parking lots ..
Johanna8able 6 months ago
I live on balboa and felt the earthquake 9/1/11 And there was a HUGE Fire on balboa and rinaldi
YouNeeks 6 months ago
@YouNeeks I live 10 miles from the epicenter of that earthquake. Me and my little sister were home alone. it really shook us up but it was fun haha
goldfishtime 6 months ago
I was up #minutes b for it happen , i Lived in a apartment . on210 crossing everything red skys animals actin funny, gdgONZALES2001
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Ninabuena24 6 months ago
I was in high school and we had the day off because it was a holiday. So I was in bed, half asleep listening to the radio when I felt it. It started as a rolling motion, but then just kept getting stronger and stronger, to the point where I felt I should get out of bed, and was doing so when it finally stopped. Luckily, nothing broke and we still had power (I live in the Pasadena area).
cbrownjc 6 months ago
I remember waking up to a small tremor, then it turned into violent shaking. I get into the doorway and look across to the bathroom and notice the blinds on the window swinging back and forth almost about to fall off, then the bathroom door slammed shut. it was complete darkness and shaking, the noise that quake made was so scary. i'll never forget that night nor the week of atfershocks we had. living through historic events can be frightening.
BillyO8834 6 months ago
damn i'm living in northridge now is there any danger?
7REAMY 6 months ago
@7REAMY There's always danger. Thats part of living in southern California.
D3FBYMPC 6 months ago
@D3FBYMPC i'm in northridge dude hahah we had an earthquake today hahahaha
7REAMY 6 months ago
@7REAMY lol I know huh. I'm in Canoga Park and I felt it too.
D3FBYMPC 6 months ago
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dude that's funny shit i didn't feel that fuckin earthquake i don't know what's goin on with me! i was somewhere in csun i didn't feel that shit that's strange lolz
7REAMY 6 months ago
i was 3 years old and my brother was 1 when the door collapsed and my father had to grab a sledgehammer to get in but when he walked in my brother was still asleep like nothing ever happened and i was already with my parents before it happened.
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I'll never forget this day.
honeegrrl 6 months ago
I was still in my mom ovary.
DrCooler1000 6 months ago
@DrCooler1000 LOL, were you reproduced asexually? No other half of you still in your dad's ball sacks?
RingSight91 4 months ago
@RingSight91 Oh yeah lol, half and half
DrCooler1000 4 months ago
What's scary is that most building in the valley have underground parking apartments that are 2 story high and they say those are the one that can't handle strong earthquakes.
MindlessQ 6 months ago
this is so crazy , i was born in this year. i hopppe his doesnt happen again
FallLean 6 months ago
I was right there too. Living in Sepulveda. I look back and wish I could have done something to help those who suffered.
anacondapr 6 months ago
i was living in van nuys, CA when this happened, and now i live in Oh and i felt todays tembler from VA here in cleveland
Asmicks 6 months ago in playlist 1994 Northridge Earthquake
i just felt and after shock of an earthquake today (tues.aug.23.2011) at 1:54 (in York,PA) and just started searching up earth quake vids.
coolioh101XOXO 6 months ago
@coolioh101XOXO check out the 1964 alaska quake vid.( 9.2)and the 1989 loma pierta (world series quake), .
720069mf 6 months ago
i was in downey when this quake happened and it literally threw me out of my bed.. i woke up on the floor. i showed this to my 10 year old son because we were talking about earthquakes. he hasn't really experienced one like the whittier narrows earthquaken or northridge.. .. northridge was crazy! and it felt like a lot more than 6.7 to me!
fetishdiva1 6 months ago
@fetishdiva1 yeah i was 3 years old but i still remember the sidewalks rolling like a wave
krazyshortperson 6 months ago
i remeber this earthquake it seemed an eternity waiting for the sun to come up
bhernand03 6 months ago
Damn I was a little morrito , I woke up and the first thing that went threw my mind was "damn I have to save my super nintendo" .
masching0n 6 months ago
My sister is only 3 years old and I'm only ten years old when it happens, let me tell you it's scary as hell!! I'm so scared that I almost puke! My dad grab me and my mom grab my little sister and took us to down stairs. of course we lived in Apartment in Thousand Oaks. Then we turn on the tv and watch the news when another quake hits. My mom is like "Lets go outside but my dad insist we should go under table. so we did, and but what we're concern is water heater breaking and ....
Femalechaos2011 7 months ago
@Femalechaos2011 burns three of us alive. we went under table to be safe and lots of things falling and I'm worrying about my fish in the small plastic tank on top of my dresser fearing it falling killing my pet fish but luckily it didn't. Thank god that water heater didn't break because if it did we won't be alive and I won't be on here. It's really scary one time I'm too scared to use the bathroom so I pissed myself on the blanket.
Femalechaos2011 7 months ago
I had to pick up my supervisor that day, other wise I would have been at the bottom of the fallen overpass (14 &the 5)
grapeknutz 7 months ago
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KONTRAORDEN 7 months ago
the epicenter was in receda
maineysanjose 7 months ago
Awww, the dead dogs!
HuggiMa 7 months ago
I bet Kathy Becker looks like she's 70 now.
calvinlotz 7 months ago
Damn this quake was crazy, we where in Northridge when this happened to... Now in Ventura tho...
Aftershocks for like a month later, going to my grandmas house out in Point Mugu and she'd say "Thats another aftershock." all the time..
Intense stuff you can still go to that bridge where that Motorcycle cop slid off, there is a cross and a memorial of him there.
theKOchannel 7 months ago
I lived in San fernando when this happened. We had to sleep in our yard. It left me traumatized. I freak out with little earthquakes now.
msheras89 7 months ago
I was about to turn 5 the month after
msheras89 7 months ago
I was 8 at the time and was living in northridge, it was the scariest thing ever! I lived right off tammie blvd
RoccoMarks 8 months ago
I was born on this exact time.....o_o WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA! Jk,
Angel223333 8 months ago
@Angel223333 my cousin was actually born during the earthquake .. i was 7 and it was the scariest thing i have ever experience.... still live in L.A ... just waiting for the big one
KONTRAORDEN 7 months ago
@KONTRAORDEN Oh, I'm sorry to hear that!
Angel223333 7 months ago
I was born on this exact time.....o_o WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!
Angel223333 8 months ago
I lived in Northridge when this happened, probably 2 miles from the Northridge Meadows apartments and a couple of blocks from CSUN. Once the sun came up there were dozens of students walking along the street in their sleep clothes with blankets around them looking like they were in shock. I was. Everyone was driving like they were crazy. No electricity, no phone, no gas. For months I drove to and from work with the signs of what happened...and it became normal.
bsh9616 8 months ago
I was 11 when this happened. I remember this earthquake like it was yesterday. I was living in Bellflower at the time.
TheFightnightchamp 8 months ago
Dam I was 2 years old when this happened I was living in La puente
funchango92 8 months ago
I was just a few monthss.. && we lived exactly right where the epicenter was on. By saticoy and reseda.. Behind that dealer.
pxaxtxtxy 8 months ago
I was around 15. It was one of the many rude awakenings the earth has given me. It would not stop shaking. I sat up in the bed but still in it. I rode it out like that.
swordbook 8 months ago
I was 17 living in Northern LA county.
Hella scary seeing a freeway broken in half.
alinjbingv 8 months ago
Hal Fishman. miss the guy
Velazquez283 8 months ago
i was 10 living in koreatown, i remember my neighborhood was tent city for like a month due to damages to the buildings. We were allowed to go in to shower and eat but we slept outside, it was crazy. I remember living on the 3rd floor and running out and seeing the next door building swaying into my building.
mom2dotnjr 9 months ago
What ever happen to Jennifer York? She used too work at KTLA 5
stage51manager 9 months ago
Oh dude, poor doggies!
Rufskin13 9 months ago
I was 9yrs old living in Newport Beach. I would take an earthquake on the west coast than a tornado or hurricane any day. You are more likely to survive an earthquake with all the building codes there are.
bigrigcrow1 9 months ago
haha i was 4 too and living in Chatsworth..Sounds like most of the people on here were born in '90
JLeb1990 9 months ago
i was 4 and in san fernando valley when this happened right next to the northridge hospital
twisted5abi 9 months ago
i was 4 and in san fernando valley when this happened
twisted5abi 9 months ago
My birthday is Jan 17th, 1994 at 12:04......i soo remember this
Chiico17 9 months ago
@Chiico17 thats crazy.. :D
TheJessi1998 8 months ago
"The Earthquake finally subsides, but not before it's felt as far away as Orr-ehh-gone" who says it like that????
vaibanez17 9 months ago
@vaibanez17 east coasters generally pronounce it like that much to the loathing of the natives
Ironpriest661 9 months ago
i remeber this earthquake
i was aout four or five at the time but i knew what was going on we lived in northridge hills and i went to the kitchen for a drink i looked out the glass window and nothing wrong as i was walking back to my room something threw me to the ground near the tv i quickly stood up only to be thrown back everything started shaking and i heard my parents and little baby sister screaming i suddenly realized it was an earthquake i crawled to the door and stood there motionles
Pickachusocute 9 months ago
where was I? I was one year old and with my parents im going to assume and yeah thats about it
AuraDragon11 10 months ago
I didn't feel this one- my Dad brought all three of us kids into the living room. I had no idea what was going on. We thought it was cool to be sleeping in the living room- until they turned on the news and I realized my dad was actually scared- the most scared I'd ever seen him. I can still remember the glare of the TV set, all five of us huddled together on the carpet. We didn't get any damage but the memory will never leave.
MenollytheBeagle 10 months ago
@MenollytheBeagle wow sounds almost exactly like my experience i was 4 and remember being woken up and everything was shaking
mytotallyfakeaccount 10 months ago
Most of my family lived in the valley at this time. :O
kakargirl 10 months ago
i am now living in bloomfield, mo. but at that time i was living in port hueneme, ca. i was 12, dad grabbed my leg and said get up we are having an earthquake. i will never forget it.....
michaelwillard777 11 months ago
had started to dream that everything was shaking. I woke up to find that everything WAS shaking. A dresser with a tv on it fell over, the dresser missing me by a few inches, but the tv set falling on my arm. Free myself from under the television. Can't find shoes. Decide to leave bedroom anyway. Open the door. Get on the floor. Everybody walk the dinosaur.
Seriously though. Leave my bedroom without shoes. Broken glass all over hallway. -_-" <--- mfw Keep shoes next to your bed. I mean it!
MacNatius 11 months ago
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MacNatius 11 months ago
I remember being in that earthquake. I was 4 and we were getting ready to move up to wyoming. My dad was already up there and it was my sister me and my mom that was left in california and i remember waking up and the little tv had fallen on my sister and mom came running in and next we ran outside and we all sat by the light post in the middle of the street and i remember mom and a couple neighbors going back into the house later after it was safe and getting food for us to eat. it was scary.
089Lauren 11 months ago
Let's have Japan Engineers tech us americans engineers how is done right
edgarsaenz 11 months ago
@edgarsaenz California has some of the strongest civil engineering codes, and best civil engineerings in the world. Japan isn't far behind, especially with their modern buildings, but a lot of the buildings are old and earthquakes were not taken into consideration when they were constructed.
SepherStar 3 months ago
@dachewth lmao!
radios causing an earthquake :p
dee2010bby 11 months ago
this earthquake was hundreds of times smaller than the one in japan. god, american engineering sucks ass.
Avatarass 11 months ago
@Avatarass japan was in the water, not on the land.
lordprobe 10 months ago
i was in camarillo state hospital when this happened. 12 years old. i remember we all woke up and every kid in the cottage was screaming WOOHOO!!! YEAH!!! then we saw what it did to northridge....
RezViper 11 months ago
What made this quake so scary was the up and down motion which was caused by a blind thrust fault.
Luckymongoose27 11 months ago
my 2 aunties and grandma was in the earthquake my auntie was at work and the windows burst and she the sidewalks waving and my grandma was at home and she ran outside and she tried to get here truck out of the garage b/c she was scared that the apartment building would collapse
simply66awesomeX 11 months ago
i was only three so i dont remember an accordin to my parents we were in mexico an the rest of the fam was here in sylmar an we came back the day after an they saw the damage
vampy181 11 months ago
I lived in Chatsworth at the time and ended up sleeping in a tent on my lawn for about a week. I woke up when I heard the howling of the neighborhood dogs about a minute before it hit. The sound of that quake will always be burned into my brain.
OceanDream9 11 months ago
I was in 2nd grade when this happened. I lived in simi at the time. It was intense.
JediMindPhuck 11 months ago
I would have slept right through this if my mom hadn't ripped me out of bed. I was surprised I didn't wake up on my own though, it was violent.
DubQWST 1 year ago
The earth shook to announce the birth of Justin Bieber.
bob555555 1 year ago
that nurse looks like my math teacher ! lol
cookiemonster9295 1 year ago
i wasnt born
mndf00 1 year ago
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I hope an earthquake destroys both Los Angeles and San Francisco. Humans are stupid to build huge cities on fault lines. In 1906 they found out what happens when a quake hits a major city and instead of evacuating the city and closing it down they rebuilt it and now San Francisco is about 5 times bigger. It's like those people that build houses 15 or 20 feet from rivers or the ocean and then whine when their house is washed out or flooded. Shouldn't have built it so close you morons.
CainmosniMirrored 1 year ago
@CainmosniMirrored "You Hope", well you better hope nothing terrible happens to you where you live or might be, because Karma is a Bitch when it happens.
EvilFingers 1 year ago
@CainmosniMirrored Yet, you say such a stupid thing yourself. Your lack of understanding and compassion makes you say such insensitive, awful, moronic things. You wish people to die? Do you hate yourself that much that you actually wish yourself dead? Apparently so. Good luck to you in life.
Zzazzaman 1 year ago
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@Zzazzaman Any disaster that can wipe out such greedy and resource hungry cities like San Fran and LA is welcomed by me. And yes, I do wish people to die. The human species is destructive, violent, narcissistic and we can't get along with one another. America has one of the highest crime rates in the world despite the freedoms and comforts we have. Losing a piece of the population will only make things better for the rest of us.
CainmosniMirrored 1 year ago
@CainmosniMirrored You sad, pathetic, mealy-mouthed little troll. Nothing better to do with your time than come here and make disparaging, insensitive & fucking moronic comments, assuming in your oh-so-enlightened state of supreme wisdom that ALL human beings are bad by nature and therefore deserve to die. Who fucked you up as a child? Your parents? Your peers? Were you born with an extra chromosome? Get professional help while you still have some semblance of your mind left. Cretin.
oliasdoug 1 year ago 3
@oliasdoug The majority of humans are bad by nature. The population of the world is out of control and if nothing is done, there wont be any resources left to sustain us. If we took the world population down to about 2 billion that would be perfect. Bring the US population down to about 85 million and we could all survive comfortably and crime would be drastically reduced. More people equal more problems, so if masses of people have to die to ensure survival of the species than fine with me.
CainmosniMirrored 1 year ago
My mom and me and my dad were in the 1994 earthquake, in Northridge. I was a baby at the time, and my mom said that I was bouncing up and down in the crib, while she was trying to get me, And she was also bouncing up and down too (and she was not your thinnest at the time.) she hurt herself, getting me, and had glass dig in her foot, which has left a scar to this day. Our hearts really go out to the Japanese right now, and we'll keep them in our prayers. Our hearts ache for them.
xonderful 1 year ago
I was in the 1971, 1989 & 1994 Earthquakes!! I thought I was gonna DIE!! I can't Imagine one that much BIGGER!! 7.1 < 8.9!!!
MarkClarkCanogaPark 1 year ago 2
@MarkClarkCanogaPark but theres a difference. 8.9 but it was pretty far away under the sea. the kobe quake was 7.2 yet it destroyed the whole city cause the epicenter was right under it. same with the northridge quake, the epicenter as under the population, so the shaking would be much more intense. I was in the northridge quake too, scariest moment of my life. i mean it's still a MAJOR earthquake for japan, but the tsunami caused MUCH more damage than the quake itself
Abdurahman1234567890 1 year ago
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@Abdurahman1234567890 the epicenter was about as far away from Japan as Simi Valley is from Los Angeles! Not that far!! The Northridge EarthQuake damaged buildings in Hollywood, Freeway in Santa Monica etc. they didn't have to be in the epicenter!! and it was 100x's bigger than the Northridge Quake!! the reason it didn't damage as many buildings is because Japan has the BEST Built Earthquake resistant buildings in the WORLD!
MarkClarkCanogaPark 1 year ago
@MarkClarkCanogaPark dang u suffered so many scary momments!
vampy181 11 months ago
i wasnt born yet butt i can imagine how it felt lyk all my prayerz go out to ppl in japan =D
bff4evr1 1 year ago
HONESTLY i feel very bad for the one from japan that was an 8.9
but dont act like a baby about it
oh (i remeber that day like it was yesterday) Nykki72
activeskatelouie 1 year ago
i was 10 years old and remember it pretty well, I remember I felt after shock after aftershock. I did not go to school for a week. Now I attend California State University Northridge and I feel it could happen again. Its crazy to think that this school was once destroyed by the quake. My prayers to those in Japan that have lost family members and friends.
Letyhero13 1 year ago
I wasn't in this earthquake, but I was in the October 17, 1989 Loma earthquake. I remember that day like it was yesterday, and I was alone. Ours was a 7.1 and I don't even want to imagine what a 8.9 quake feels like. My heart and prayers go out to the people of Japan.
Nykki72 1 year ago
I too lived in Northridge during this earthquake. My house was destroyed, a red tag put on the door. I will NEVER forget the sound...never more terrified in my life and I grew up in Los Angeles! All my prayers go out to the Japanese people, I know the terror but an 8.9 earthquake? Unimaginable.
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dakarus 1 year ago
I lived in Hollywood at that time - it was the scariest thing ever.
cacitybird 1 year ago
@cacitybird Yeah I lived in the LA area, I remember it. It was so scary. Nothing like what Japan can be feeling now though.
curlyhair343 1 year ago
never get i for get this day =(
Sioux2606 1 year ago
@Sioux2606 never can i for get this day. i still live in northridge =/
Sioux2606 1 year ago
i think anyone who was raised in Southern California had the unfortunate opportunity of living through the 94' Northridge quake. I myself was less that 10 miles from the epicenter and remember that day like it was yesterday. it was Martin Luther King's Bday and everyone remembers that because it was a Sunday night to Monday and those of us who had school always loved those monday holidays that allowed you to stay up late and enjoy your Sunday. Ya well I dont think anyone enjoyed that holiday.
harshLesson 1 year ago
that morning i took out the video camera and began to tape the damages, when i caught my uncle taking a shit in the back yard. lol
derirobbie 1 year ago
i had just arrived at my cousin's house in san fernando from vacation when it hit. when we ran outside, it was pitch black and you could hear explosions coming from the sylmar area. i thought it was the end of the world
derirobbie 1 year ago
I was 10 at this time and had spent the night at my uncle's home. I recall waking up because my cousin fell off the top bunk, but I thought he has simply rolled out of bed, so I turned over and went back to sleep.
My dad was a truck driver and had just driven over an overpass when it totally collapsed behind him.
lionphox 1 year ago
I was 23 yrs old and living in Bell when it hit. According to the US/California EQ seismic map, Bell was one of the cities that shook the hardest. And boy did it ever...my door was closed, but is was shaking like something outta a horror movie. That door scared me more than the E.Q itself.
TheZunigal 1 year ago
I lived in Glendale at the time. I remember hearing the car alarms go off and then it sounded like a 18 wheeler truck crashing into the house. The house seemed to violently shake forever. I really thought it was the end. I still get jumpy when I hear car alarms.
sirensealight 1 year ago
I was about 10 for this and in Simi Valley. No serious damage was done to our house but it freaked me out all the same.
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MyCoolgirls123 1 year ago
i was almost 4 years old..the earthquake literally tramatized me i had to learn how to walk and talk again..til this day im horrified of earthquakes even the small ones i freak out
heaven0925 1 year ago
this was one month before my 4th birtdhday
chpman2013 1 year ago
@chpman2013 me too!
heaven0925 1 year ago
my dad was in this earthquake and he lived in northridge
peacecupcake1 1 year ago
i still remember this i was 8 years old living in Van Nuys and Sherman Way
24MrKlutch 1 year ago
i was born when this happend.
danvsyou 1 year ago
my mom was pregnant with me during this quake... idk how i made it
xKillZz 1 year ago
at that time i was living on a third floor apartment....the whole building shaked like if it was from a holliwood movie.
georgemrr 1 year ago
@georgemrr Me too! Second floor apartment, old wooden building in Long Beach. I turned on the tv and it took HOURS for them to report anything.
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This bought back so much memories. LA in the early 90s was a crazy place from the riots to the earthquake and OJ Simpson.
gemini6179 1 year ago
i was seven when i was right in the middle of this. still remember the morning it happened, was a day before my birthday. knocked every single dish out of the cabinets and a entire bookshelf of encylopedia's fell ontop of my mother
ogjuggalo4545 1 year ago
I was lying in my bed when it happened. I had to go to work that morning, even though it was Martin Luther King Day, and I thought it was my dad shaking my bed to wake me up. When I realized what happened I ran to my closet door and stood in that until the shaking stopped. After the initial shock I got dressed and ran outside to check the gas meter. I did go to work, but the lights were out and they wound up sending us home.
Sargebri 1 year ago
i was nine and asleep in a bunker bed when all of a sudden it started and it shook the beds soo hard i almost fell off. i remember waking up to everything on the floor while my parents grabbed me. we camped outside bc of all the after shock's
Princezzdeby 1 year ago
My gf was 11 y/o and living in Northridge during this shaker. When she tells me the story, I usually pee my pants a little.
futureBLU 1 year ago
this was one crazy earthquake! I was 11 years old and I remember it well! My dog was sleeping in my room and moments before the quake, she started acting weird and scratching at my door. The shaking was insane and I could hear stuff breaking in the house. I just lay in my bed waiting for it to end. I remember hearing transformers blowing up aound the neighborhood.
krissycat25 1 year ago
I was right around the corner from the Northridge Meadows (across the street from CSUN), and couldn't believe this was happening. It was my last year of college, and was in my apartment as I scrambled trying to get down 3 stories amidst all the aftershocks. I couldn't believe it when I saw the 3 story building collapse into 2. It was the worst thing I've ever seen with my own eyes, as they pulled bodies out of the buildings. Thankful for life, as I reflect on this today.
lakersluv 1 year ago
I was 1 and a half when this happened. I was in my crib and I was rolling around the room hanging on (eyes wide) when my mom finally got to my room and grabbed me and my brother. Someone in our apartment complex had to kick our front door in because it was jammed & my dad, mom, brother and I got out as fast as we could.
CatieEmme 1 year ago
i was negative 2 months when this happened. my mom was pregnant and with the earthquake she fell to the floor and luckily she didn't land on her stomach or else i wouldn't be here today. im grateful.
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I was on I-5 when the highway collapsed in front of me. You will see photos not show in this video, which show a semi truck on the edge & highway broke apart, I was right behind him which put me about 30' from going off the end, we were over the old canyon highway about 60' up. My 27' motor home went off the pavement & bounced side to side before righting itself, rolled over, good thing it was dark & didn't know how high up we were. Pavement dropped 1' & spread 1' apart. Almost died, miracle !
asharon956 1 year ago
Unbelievable. I can't believe it. I'm an Aussie and the first time I ever went to the US was when I was 5 when this disaster struck. We'd just left LA to Las Vegas. We missed it by 1 day.
MrJcbo 1 year ago
I was 11 when this happened. My entire house had to be torn down and took two years to rebuild.
I was in Northridge, near CSUN.
RealtorLiz 1 year ago
I was 13 when this earthquake had hit, Riverside Ca.
sweetsassygirl30 1 year ago
I wasn't even born yet but my mother,brother,and three sisters were in that exact appartment complex and some how they all made it out alive
jrwizi 1 year ago
I was 23 Years I was spending the night over a friends house listening to a CD when it started skipping big time
edgarsaenz 1 year ago