Northridge Earthquake

A small earthquake hit an area about five miles north-northwest of Simi Valley late Friday afternoon. The 5:59 p.m. quake, which registered at a magnitude of 3.4, was an aftershock of the 1994 Northridge earthquake, said Joe Franck, a seismologist at Caltech. Simi Valley police said they barely felt the aftershock, and received no calls regarding the tremor. "Whatever it was, it certainly didn't rank up there with the big-time earthquakes," Simi Valley Lt. Neil Rein said.

An aftershock to the 1994 Northridge earthquake shook the San Fernando Valley late Tuesday, but there were no immediate reports of injury or damage. The quake had a preliminary magnitude of 3.0 and struck at 10:22 p.m., two miles southeast of Encino, U.S. Geological Survey seismologist Jim Mori said. The tremor was one of thousands of aftershocks to the 6.7-magnitude Northridge quake of Jan. 17, 1994, that killed 72 people and caused more than $40 billion in damage.

A flurry of six small aftershocks of the Northridge earthquake, the strongest a magnitude 3.0, rattled the San Fernando Valley early Monday, Caltech seismologists reported. The quakes, none of which caused either damage or injury, were centered four miles northwest of San Fernando. They began at 2:52 a.m with a 2.7 and continued for several minutes, with the 3.0 occurring at 4:09 a.m. There have been about 15,000 aftershocks of the Jan.

The Northridge Fashion Center's high-tech security system will be discussed at a North Hills area Neighborhood Watch meeting tonight. Jim Dellinger, director of security at the mall, will be the guest speaker. The meeting will begin at 7:30 p.m. at Gledhill Street School, 16030 Gledhill St., North Hills. The mall reopened Monday after undergoing repairs to damage caused by the January, 1994, Northridge earthquake. Los Angeles Police Detective Mike Brandt will discuss protection against robbery.

Earthquake scientists acknowledge they do not completely understand how, but they believe that in some way the 1971 Sylmar-San Fernando earthquake triggered the Northridge earthquake 23 years later. The aftershock zones of the two quakes overlap. Unlike Northridge, the San Fernando quake had a surface rupture, and unlike Northridge it was centered in the mountains rather than beneath the Valley floor. SAN FERNANDO (1971) Magnitude: 6.

A man who lived near the devastated Northridge Meadows Apartments pleaded guilty Wednesday to illegally entering the condemned building where 16 people died during the Northridge earthquake. Timothy Loughton, 24, pleaded guilty to one misdemeanor count of trespassing and was immediately sentenced to 90 days in County Jail by Van Nuys Municipal Judge Gerald Richardson.

Millions of Southern Californians were jolted awake at 4:31 a.m. on Jan. 17, 1994, by the magnitude 6.7 Northridge earthquake, which left 72 dead, more than 11,000 injured and damage exceeding $25 billion. Five years after the costliest natural disaster in U.S. history, most of the physical scars have been remedied, but for many residents the stark images of that January remain fresh. Do you have compelling memories of the Northridge earthquake, or its aftermath, that you'd like to share?