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L.A. Now Live: 20th anniversary of Northridge earthquake

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Only rubble remains at the junction of the 5 and 14 freeways following the 1994 Northridge earthquake.

  (Jonathan Alcorn / For The Times)
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Cars are dwarfed by a wall of flames that was created when a natural gas line ruptured in the earthquake.  (Jonathan Alcorn / For The Los Angeles Times)
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The body of Los Angeles Police Officer Clarence Wayne Dean lies near his motorcycle, which plunged off the 14 Freeway overpass that collapsed onto the 5 Freeway during the earthquake.  (Jonathan Alcorn / For the Los Angeles Times)
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Dave Dutton found chaos at his Dutton’s Books in North Hollywood.  (Julie Markes / For the Los Angeles Times)
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People stand in line at a Canoga Park High School shelter to pick up children’s sweat suits donated by a sporting goods manufacturer.  (David Bohrer / For the Los Angeles Times)
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Jessica Hernandez, 7, clutches her teddy bear outside the makeshift shelter where her family and other residents of a Van Nuys apartment complex are living because they are afraid of return to their homes.  (Al Seib / Los Angeles Times)
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Unable to bathe since his Canoga Park apartment was condemned, Jose Aguilar rinses off in a pool.  (Ricardo DeAratanha / Los Angeles Times)
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Both ends of this medical administration building collapsed, and the second floor pancaked.  (Ricardo DeArantha / Los Angeles Times)
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A man stares out to the street from his wall-less home at the devastated Northridge Meadows apartments.  (Joel P. Lugavere / Los Angeles Times)
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Flowers line a fence at the Northridge Meadows apartment complex a week after the quake.  (Julie Markes / For the Los Angeles Times)
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Join Los Angeles Times staff writers Doug Smith and Bob Pool at 9 a.m. Friday as they talk about their experience reporting on the Northridge earthquake 20 years ago.

Pool lived not far from the epicenter and will discuss both the personal and professional challenges he faced after the magnitude 6.7 earthquake rocked the region. In addition to covering Northridge, Smith has been part of a L.A. Times team that reported numerous buildings were approved for construction on or near faults in the region without extensive seismic review. State and city leaders have since called for greater earthquake safety initiatives.

Readers who experienced the earthquake are welcome to join in on the conversation and share their memories.

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