1994 Northridge earthquake | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 15/05/2019

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00:01:32 1 Epicenter
00:02:37 2 Damage and fatalities
00:07:32 3 Valley fever outbreak
00:08:21 4 Facilities and infrastructure affected
00:08:31 4.1 Hospitals
00:09:19 4.2 Television, movie, and music productions
00:11:43 4.3 Transportation
00:13:30 4.4 California State University, Northridge
00:14:31 4.5 Campus Damage
00:15:28 4.6 Classes and Enrollment
00:16:27 4.7 External Resources
00:17:28 4.8 Entertainment and sports
00:19:14 4.9 Other buildings
00:20:36 4.10 Radio and television
00:22:04 4.11 Government and organizations
00:23:07 5 Aftermath
00:23:16 5.1 State Legislative Response
00:24:03 5.2 Building code updates
00:25:43 6 See also



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The 1994 Northridge earthquake was a magnitude of 6.7 (Mw), blind thrust earthquake that occurred on January 17 at 4:30:55 a.m. PST in the San Fernando Valley region of the County of Los Angeles. Its epicenter was in Reseda, a neighborhood in the north-central Valley. The quake had a duration of approximately 10–20 seconds, and its peak ground acceleration of 1.8g (16.7 m/s2) was the highest ever instrumentally recorded in an urban area in North America.  Strong ground motion was felt as far away as Las Vegas, Nevada, about 220 miles (360 km) from the epicenter. The peak ground velocity at the Rinaldi Receiving Station was 183 cm/s (4.09 mph or 6.59 km/h), the fastest ever recorded.
Two 6.0 Mw  aftershocks followed, the first about one minute after the initial event and the second approximately 11 hours later, the strongest of several thousand aftershocks in all.  The death toll was 57, with more than 8,700 injured. In addition, property damage was estimated to be $13–50 billion (equivalent to $22–85 billion today), making it one of the costliest natural disasters in U.S. history.