Thirty-one years ago this week, Riordan put it to good use, and it echoes on the anniversary of the Northridge earthquake as a kind of playbook — lessons learned amid the city of L.A.’s and ...

While these quakes were far weaker than historic temblors like the 6.7 Northridge Earthquake of 1994, which caused an ...

"One wall shook for a few seconds. I pray almost every day that we don't have a catastrophic earthquake, and I've been praying this way since the big Northridge earthquake in 1994." On the USGS ...

The other big ones here are Sylmar at 6.6, Whittier Narrows at 5.9, Sierra Madre at 5.8 and Northridge 6.7. Above: Earthquake Damage in Greater Los Angeles, compiled by Robert P. Masse and James W ...

At exactly 4:30:55 a.m. on Jan. 17, 1994, Los Angeles was rocked by a magnitude 6.7 earthquake that caused catastrophic damage, particularly near the epicenter in the San Fernando Valley.