Irememberr Northridge, and Sylmar before it. Also Whittier Narrows.
Once worked with a man that went thru Long Beach 1933. My mother remembered it from childhood.
A major cause of damage, was "unreinforced masonry structures" Old brick buildings.
I learned a safe place is in a new high rise building.
In Northridge and Loma Prietta, we how dangerous "tuck under" parking style garage-apartment buildings can be.
In Loma Prietta we witnessed how dangerous buildings are, when they sit on "Liquefaction" geology.