Earthquake of San Fernando of 1971

The San Fernando Earthquake of 1971 (also known as the Sylmar Earthquake) hit the San Fernando Valley near Sylmar at 6:00:55 a.m. PST on 9 February 1971, with a magnitude on the Richter scale of 6.6.

There are several names for this earthquake. Seismologists call it the San Fernando earthquake. USGS 'Sylmar Quake' or 'Sylmar Earthquake' is the name initially given to the event by local media because the worst damage occurred at the Olive View Medical Center located in Sylmar. Local veterans of the 'Sylmar Quake' often refer to this seismic event as the 'February Nine' earthquake.

The earthquake broke a segment of the San Fernando fault zone. It claimed the loss of 65 lives and caused more than 500 million dollars in damages.

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