[californiadisasters] Re: One from the Vaults - San Fernando Valley Earthquake 1971 Sylmar California

That was my first experience with a larger quake. At that time I was living on the East side of the San Fernando Valley, a few miles South of the city of San Fernando.

Most everybody I knew/know always called it the Sylmar quake.

--- In californiadisasters@yahoogroups.com, Lin Kerns wrote:
>
> The 1971 San Fernando earthquake (also known as Sylmar earthquake) struck
> the San Fernando Valley near Sylmar at 6:00:55 a.m. PST on February 9,
> 1971, with a magnitude of 6.6.
>
> There are various names for this earthquake. Seismologists call it the San
> Fernando earthquake. USGS 'Sylmar Quake' or 'Sylmar earthquake' is the name
> initially given to the event by local media outlets, because the worst
> damage was to the Olive View Medical Center, located in Sylmar. Local
> veterans of 'the Sylmar Quake' commonly refer to this seismic event as the
> 'February Ninth' quake.
>
> Contains the famous line about the earth shaking "like an angry parent
> shakes his screaming child!"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fiabD0WBl7w
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