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- I have scanned in several photos that either my wife, Jane, a friend, Terry
- Beaumier and I took on 22 February 1994, just 5 days after the 6.8
- Northridge/Reseda earthquake. I thought there would be many people who
- would like to see photos of some of the destruction other than what you can
- get out of the media. I scanned them on a Sun (ugh!) and saved them at the
- highest quality JPEG allows (it was the only format that the software had
- in common with the Mac). I decided to sample them at 150 dpi in order to
- keep the images large enough to show good detail but also small enough to
- make it worth the download time. All the images are less than 700 Kb (15
- in all), but I have compressed those of the same site into one ".sea" file
- to keep them together and save download time. There are 7 sets of photos
- in this series. I hope others will also post some of their photos--I have
- seen some really dramatic and disturbing shots.
-
-
- ************************************************************************
- Three of theses photos were in the same area (* marks photo sites):
-
- *Northridge Meadows*
- ======================== Reseda Blvd =======================
- N P
- O L
- R ---------------------------------------- U
- D | CSUN | M North ->
- O | | M
- F | *CSUN Parking* | E
- F ---------------------------------------- R
- =========================== Zelzah =========================
- *Townhomes*
-
-
- ************************************************************************
- Photo Names: Car Crunch 1-3
- Location: Apartment complex at Victory & Tampa
- (south-ish side of the San Fernando Valley)
- ************************************************************************
-
- This three story apartment complex is now totally condemned.
-
- Photos 1-2: The worst damage occurred to the entire back row of apartments
- bordering the wash when the supports in the lower floor's car port buckled.
- As you can see many cars were crushed by the other two floors when the
- whole row of apartments tilted toward the wash. I was told that the
- apartment in the middle burned down (the one that looks like it was totally
- torn apart), but I couldn't see any signs of fire from my vantage point.
-
- Photo 3: This is of the side wall where the apartments detached from the
- rest of the complex (between the two tall trees). If you were to look
- through the giant rip in the wall, you would see that the front room was
- ripped in two just 6 inches from where a baby stroller stood (I kid you
- not!) and 6 feet from a baby swing near the rear wall. If the tenants did
- not escape through a window near the ground, they would have had to climb
- up a steep incline and climb down the three story high rubble to get out.
- I have no idea who the person in the photo is.
-
- The photos were taken from these location(s):
- ||
- ================= Victory Blvd ================== || ================
- ------------------------------------ T
- | | A
- | | M
- | Apartment Bldg | P
- | | A
- | | ||
- |------------------------------------| Photo 3 (Bldg detatched here)
- | Back Row | ||
- ------------------------------------ ||
- Crushed Cars Photo 2 ||
- ================= Wash ===========================||=================
- ||
-
- Photo 1 (Long distance)
-
-
- ************************************************************************
- Photo Names: CSUN Parking 1-3
- Location: Parking structure at CSUN (Cal State Univ Northridge)
- ************************************************************************
-
- The parking structure at CSUN folded in on itself in the original quake, as
- these photos show. A 5.x aftershock later caused it to collapse even
- further. Notice how the concrete supports were bent like rubber.
-
-
- ************************************************************************
- Photo Names: Old Federal Building
- Location: Sherman Way & Lindly
- ************************************************************************
-
- Photo says it all (i.e., I know nothing other than what you can see in the
- picture).
-
-
- ************************************************************************
- Photo Names: Mall Parking 1-3
- Location: New parking structure at Northridge Mall
- ************************************************************************
-
- Several shots of the relatively new multi-story parking structure at the
- Northridge Mall. A man was trapped in this rubble while in his street
- sweeper. They have since torn ALL of the mall's parking structures down--5
- in all I think. I don't know who the man in the photo is.
-
-
- ************************************************************************
- Photo Names: Northridge Meadows 1-2
- Location: 9565 (?) Reseda Blvd.
- ************************************************************************
-
- These are probably the most disturbing photos I have--the Northridge
- Meadows apartments where so many people were crushed.
-
- Photo 1: The building on the left used to be exactly the same as the one on
- the right. The one on the left fell to the right (northward) about 10
- feet, completely collapsing the first story. As you can see, you can't
- even tell that this building used to be 3 stories high.
-
- Photo 2: The side of the fallen building.
-
- The photos were taken from these location(s):
-
- | | | |
- | Left Bldg | | Right Bldg | North ->
- ----------------------- ----------------------
- Photo 2
- ======================== Reseda Blvd ========================
- Photo 1
-
-
- ************************************************************************
- Photo Names: Town House 1-3
- Location: Zelzah near CSUN parking structure
- ************************************************************************
-
- This was a really nice 3 story townhouse complex. Again it shows how
- having a car port/garage in a multi-story building weakens the structure.
-
- Photo 1: I don't know how these people got out of their houses after the
- quake--ALL the stairs to the upper floor detatched and fell away.
-
- Photo 2: The side of the building. Notice the pink panther.
-
- Photo 3: Once again, the building on the left was exactly the same as the
- one on the right. The garages collapsed, tilting the rest of the house.
- The building to the right was not just one row of townhouses, but rather
- four rows of townhomes connected together like the sides of a
- square/rectangle (I think).
-
- The photos were taken from these location(s):
-
- || | Identical Townhomes |
- Z ----------------------------------------------
- E Garages/Driveway Photo 3
- L ----------------------------------------------
- Z | |
- A | Row Of Damaged Townhomes | Photo 2
- H | |
- || ----------------------------------------------
- Photo 1
-
-
- ************************************************************************
- Photo Names: Warner Center 1
- Location: Parking structure in Warner Center
- ************************************************************************
-
- This is a photo of the multi-story parking structure behind the Cheesecake
- Factory in Warner Center. The structure is in use again, but they are
- rebuilding the stairwell.
-
-
-
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- - DH Kemsley, survivor of 1971 6.5 Sylmar & 1994 6.8 Northridge quakes
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