In the Northridge 1994 quake, this hole was created by shaking near the epicenter. The Northridge earthquake, however small, caused much more damage than Los Angeles residents had ever imagined.

Los Angeles Los Angeles is located to the east of the Pacific Ocean. Los Angeles is believed to be the City of Angels and is known for Hollywood and its big blockbuster movies. There are many tall buildings and mountains that surround this famous city. But soon, the City of Angels will be ruined. According to new research, an active blind-thrust fault system has been discovered directly under the Los Angeles metropolitan area. named the Puente Hills Fault, the system is comprised of three sections and runs 12.5 miles wide and nearly 25 miles long under downtown Los Angeles, through Santa Fe Springs and into the Coyote of northern Orange County. Geologists have recognized that the Los Angeles Basin is constantly moving northwestward. During this compressed kind of immense, fractured blocks of the earth's mantle thrust each other upward, causing hills and mountain ranges. Northridge, California 1994 At 4:30 am, Los Angeles was woke up by a huge earthquake. it called the Northridge earthquake of 1994, which killed 57 people left 20,000 homeless, and resulted in $40 billion in damage. Northridge was one of the most expensive disaster in the United States. --by Jessica Fennell � �

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