NORTHRIDGE: The earthquake claimed its greatest human toll at its epicenter - in Northridge near California State University. At least 15 people died when the three-story Northridge Meadows Apartments collapsed.
A 64-car freight train carrying sulfuric acid derailed between Northridge and Chatsworth. Hazardous materials crews were cleaning up the spill.
A Bullocks department store at Northridge Fashion Center mall collapsed into a pile of concrete and steel.
GRANADA HILLS: Granada Hills Community Hospital turned patients away after hundreds who had been injured sought care. A temporary emergency room was set up in the parking lot; nurses treated more than 1,000 patients there. "The hospital has been semi-demolished. The electricity is not working. We're on a generator," said volunteer Lisa Bourgeois, a nurse. Water from broken mains gushed through the streets and fireballs erupted from broken gas mains. Panicked residents filled buckets with water from swimming pools and tossed it onto their homes.
SYLMAR: A 75-foot-high overpass connecting state Highway 14 and Interstate 5 in Sylmar collapsed, killing a Los Angeles motorcycle police officer who was riding on it. Two people died from quake-related heart attacks at Holy Cross Medical Center.
More than 70 homes were destroyed by fires, and a power substation was badly damaged in a town that was the epicenter of a devastating 1971 quake.
At a Sylmar trailer park, Joy Chambers sobbed, "I lost my trailer and my cat. Sparks flew everywhere, one trailer after another. The fire was right after the earthquake. I looked for my cat everywhere, but I couldn't find her. I left the door open for her. I hope she got out."
SHERMAN OAKS: Two people died when a home in Sherman Oaks slid down a hillside. Another person was killed in a fall from a sixth-floor window at a downtown hotel. And a 5-year-old boy was crushed in his home.
DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES: At Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, three people died of quake-related heart attacks.
The Federal Aviation Administration closed Los Angeles International Airport for about two hours as a precaution. Other area airports also were briefly closed.
Throughout the city, the sound of burglar alarms, car alarms and emergency sirens blended into a constant wail. Six people were arrested for looting.
SOUTH-CENTRAL L.A.: South-central Los Angeles - hardest-hit by the 1992 riots - was seriously affected. The walls and facades of some old buildings caved in, and brick, glass and other debris littered pavements.
PACIFIC PALISADES: A powerful aftershock on Monday afternoon damaged expensive homes overlooking the Pacific Coast Highway.
SAN FERNANDO: Dozens of cars lining the streets exploded from the intense heat of natural-gas fires. At least a half-dozen vehicles were burning on one street.
HOLLYWOOD/WEST HOLLYWOOD: At least 50 buildings were destroyed, and many homes - including some worth millions - slid off their foundations.
Along the celebrated Hollywood Walk of Fame, punk rockers still out from late-night partying mingled with terrified residents of the Hollywood Plaza Retirement Home in the early morning hours.
BURBANK: Newer earthquake-proof buildings - some of them built on rollers - owned by Disney, Warner Brothers and other studios survived the quake. But the quake caused severe damage to unreinforced businesses and apartment buldings. Flooding and gas leaks added to the toll. Residents had no power and no water.
BEVERLY HILLS: Stunned hotel guests wearing white hotel bathrobes walked up and down Wilshire Boulevard in the morning, peering into shop windows.
Along Rodeo Drive, the pricey shopping district, broken glass littered the sidewalk, store window displays were toppled and merchandise lay on store floors. Workers at a Ferrari dealership swept glass off the cars.
ANAHEIM: The earthquake bent the big "A" sign over the upper deck in Anaheim Stadium, scattered pieces of shattered billboards across the upper-deck seats and damaged replay screens. The stadium is home of baseball's California Angels and football's Los Angeles Rams. A city spokesman estimated the damage at $ 3.4 million.
RANCHO CUCAMONGA: A 37-year-old Rancho Cucamonga woman died after she slipped and hit her head on a baby crib, breaking her neck.
VALENCIA: A crude oil main broke in Valencia, sending oil into the Santa Clara River.
ELSEWHERE: In Las Vegas, the earthquake rattled nerves of some hotel patrons but caused no injuries or damage. A phone operator at the 30-story Las Vegas Hilton said some people panicked when they felt a rolling motion, thinking it was taking place there.
Compiled by Carrie Dowling and Joyce Harris Jones. Contributing: Evelyn Tan
