The Northridge earthquake
Gas from a ruptured supply line burns as water from a broken water main floods Balboa Boulevard in the Granada Hills area of Los Angeles. The fire from the gas main destroyed two homes, right.
(Lenny Ignelzi / AP)
A police motorcycle officer died after the collapse of a transition bridge between the 14 and 5 freeways.
(Steve Dykes / Los Angeles Times)
A damaged house in Fillmore six months after the Northridge quake.
(Joe Pugliese / Los Angeles Times)
Construction workers and investigators begin demolition at the remains of the Northridge Meadows apartment complex.
(Richard Derk / Los Angeles Times)
Bricks and debris surround a building on Hollywood Boulevard after the Northridge earthquake.
(Rene Macura / AP)
The 10 freeway split and collapsed over La Cienega Boulevard during the Northridge quake.
(Eric Draper / AP)
Cal State Northridge students walk past a collapsed parking structure on campus.
(Mark J. Terrill / AP)
The Kaiser Permanente outpatient center in Northridge after the quake.
(Alcorn, Jonathan / For the Times)
A portion of the Bullock’s department store in the Northridge Fashion Center collapsed in the Northridge earthquake.
(Reed Saxon / AP)
The Northridge Meadows apartment complex, in which 16 people died when the upper floors collapsed onto the so-called soft story ground floor.
(Nick Ut / AP)
The covered body of Los Angeles Police Officer Clarence Wayne Dean lies near his motorcycle, which plunged off the 14 Freeway overpass that collapsed onto Interstate 5.
(Douglas C. Pizac / AP)
Fillmore’s Cental Market was one of the many buildings and businesses hard hit by the Northridge earthquake.
(AH¥Alan Hagman / Los Angeles Times)
Damaged apartments in Sherman Oaks. (Khan, Irfan / Los Angeles Times)