I'm with you Gary, that Northridge earthquake in 1994 was quite traumatic......it collapsed the freeway that I had to use to get out of where I lived & it was my way to work....that was the one that the police motorcyclist was killed on when it collapsed under him. It took me 6 hours to get to work after that.....there was no way to get to work from where I lived without having to go all the way around the area on the back roads. I lived in the Antelope Valley & worked in Thousand Oaks.....had to go in through Filmore & Simi Valley (where you are). When I first drove into the SanFernando Valley where Northridge is, it looked like it had been bombed.....there were little puff's of smoke all over the place & holes in streats that your whole car would get lost in....let alone all th crumbled buildings......Earthquakes can be very devistating & Caliornia has seen many of those.

I am glad this earthquake was relatively mild....but even the mild ones can do damage depending on the age of the buildings.

Debbie