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Four year old Ava Gougis and other Preschool children who attend the Joy Picus Development Center located in downtown Los Angeles? City Hall are pictured hiding under desks as they participate in California?s annual statewide earthquake drill, ?The…

A blue and white house located in the city of Fillmore near its historic downtown area in Ventura County was nearly destroyed by the 1994 Northridge earthquake. Despite its collapsed foundation and pillars that have broken loose from their moorings,…

Residents of a three-story apartment complex emerge from the destruction left behind by the 1994 Northridge earthquake. A man stares out onto the street from his wall-less home at the devastated Northridge Meadows Apartments.

Repair begins on the collapsed Interstate 5 Freeway before dawn.

The southbound lanes of the Interstate 5 collapsed onto the Interstate 14 freeway junction where the Los Angeles City Limit begins in Santa Clarita. The photo captures LAPD officers investigating the scene of the disaster, and aiding victims involved…

A portion of the Antelope Valley Freeway collapsed the morning of the 1994 Northridge earthquake. A tractor-trailer and a motorhome sits stranded on the raised stretch of the Interstate 5 freeway.

A series of catastrophic events followed the 1994 Northridge earthquake. In Granada Hills, in the middle of the 11600 block of Balboa Boulevard, a ruptured gas main burns behind a giant crater caused by the earthquake. Several homes adjacent to where…

A curious young boy gets a closer look at the unbelievable, while spectators from above inspect the damage to their cars trapped under the Park Regency apartment building in Canoga Park; a result of the 1994 Northridge earthquake.