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So at 3:59:19 p.m. PST the second aftershock, almost 12 hours after the first struck. An 6.8 aftershock that lasted for 10-20 seconds struck the city. | So at 3:59:19 p.m. PST the second aftershock, almost 12 hours after the first struck. An 6.8 aftershock that lasted for 10-20 seconds struck the city. | ||
This second aftershock was almost another earthquake by itselves. | This second aftershock was almost another earthquake by itselves. An 11 story 1910s building collapsed onto the road below, crushing multiple cars on the road below. Most of the interstates were blocked off and unstable, so when an off-ramp in Los Llanos collapsed onto the highway below, noone was hurt. | ||
More of the roof of the terminal 1 wing collapsed onto the terminal below. | |||
Around 19 more unstable buildings collapsed in the aftershock, and many rescue operations were halted. | |||
After this aftershock, emergency services started moving debris and collapsed infrastructure, and made alternate routes so residents could easily leave the city without sitting in traffic for hours. Many of these residents had to temporarily stay somewhere else so the city set up a temporary bus route from the first aid camps to the nearby towns and cities. Rescue operations were going on for the remaining of the day and they started fixing some of the collapsed infrastucture at the end of the day. | |||
== Victims == | |||
205 people died in this earthquake, making it one of the deadliest earthquakes in california since the 1989 Loma Prieta Earthquake. | |||
25 people were in the bank of despair tower when it collapsed, 11 people evacuated before the first aftershock hit, but unfortunately when the building collapsed 24 of the 25 people in the building died. 1 person survived and she was found and rescued 2 days after the original collapse. The Building collapsed onto the bridge and warehouses below, killing 1 person as she was driving on the bridge, and injuring 3 workers in the warehouse. | |||
One of the deadliest disasters was the collapse of interstate I-105, with cars being buried in debris and crushed under infrastructure. Many nightshft residents were driving home, while early morning workers were driving to work. Atleast 31 cars were on the interstate, and 2 people were in the parking lot beneath the interstate. The earthquake struck and large parts of the bridge collapsed onto the parking lot below. A couple who just returned from an early morning jog in the park were both found dead, as they stood nexto their car in the parking lot below. another 29 people died due to cars being buried by rubble. and 4 people who were skating in the skatepark all died due to the falling debris. 35 people died in this horrible incident. | |||
== Aftermath == | |||
Rescue operations were going on for atleast another week, many residents opted to stay outside of the city in fear for another aftershock, which never came. | |||
Many businesses were closed for days after the quake, and greenfield took a large economical hit. | |||
The ashfield and Downtown hospitals were both closed due to structural concerns, and the people had to be moved into nearby hospitals, making them overfilled and short on staff. | |||
Cleaning up the debris took weeks, and was very difficult in some cases, the train that crashed into the canal, the collapsed bank of despair tower, and other large peices of debri took weeks, almost months to clean up. To this day there is still collapsed buildings all over the city, but especially on the northern side. | |||
During the first few days phone services and electrical was out and wouldnt return untill 5 days after the earthquake, while less important areas like Los Llanos and Westwood didnt have power untill 2 weeks later. | |||
The death toll was 205, with more than 10 thousand injured. In addition, property damage was estimated to be $45–150 billion. | |||
Even though many people recovered in the years after, many are still traumatized and miss their family members lost in the earthquake, many memorials were put up for the earthquake, with people calling it "the earthquake that shook the world", for example a mural was made in Glenview called Windflower Wildfire, which pictures a grassland with a large windflower burning down. | |||