1994 Northridge facts
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When the Northridge Earthquake caused a massive power outage in L.A. in 1994, panicked residents called 911 to express alarm about a strange ethereal light overhead; they were seeing the Milky Way Galaxy for the first time.
Disneyland has only ever fully shut down three times; the day JFK was assassinated, during the Northridge earthquake of 1994, and 9/11. The park also closed early the day after 9/11, as so few people entered it. Two days earlier, it had been packed.
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After the 1994 Northridge earthquake, two key bridges on Interstate 10 were repaired in less than 3 months, a whopping 74 days ahead of the target date. That effort earned the construction company who repaired them a $14.5M bonus.
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The 1994 Northridge Earthquake epicenter was actually in its neighboring city of Reseda
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The 1994 Northridge Earthquake triggered landslide dust clouds that contained spores of coccidioidomycosis fungus (valley fever), sickening 200 and killing 3
