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The '''1994 Greenfield earthquake''' was a moment magnitude 7.5 (M_w), blind thrust earthquake that occurred on January 17, 1994, at 4:30:55 a.m. PST from the coast of Greenfield all the way to the San Fernando Valley region of the City of Los Angeles. The quake had a duration of approximately 30-35 seconds, Shaking was felt as far away as San Diego, Turlock, Las Vegas, Richfield, and Phoenix.  

Damage occurred up to 95 miles away, with the most damage in the Greenfield Bay area, and the San Fernando Valley. The area most affected by the earthquake were the neighbourhoods of Ashfield, Northpark, Clinton and surrounding areas like Glenview. Many older apartment buildings suffered major damages, and even collapsed, most famously the Carrien, which stood at 8 floors tall in Downtown Ashfield. Unfortunately the city saw major losses, The highway leading up to the bridge from greenfield to ashfield partly collapsed onto the brand new marina under it, An old historic warehouse on one of the piers completely collapsed, and so did 9 other buildings, the tallest finished structure was the 12 storey tall apartment building right nexto the bridge connecting downtown greenfield and ashfield. Many buildings in ashfield were badly damaged, and had to either be repaired or torn down. Ashfield quickly rebuilt most of its infrastructure in the weeks after, and during the 2000s and up many new apartments and condo buildings were built on the collapsed buildings, however things did not go quite as well with Northpark, clinton, springfield and western ashfield.

These districts were mainly filled with large warehouses and factories. A lot of these collapsed during the earthquake or had to be torn down after. The areas had large empty fields with half-collapsed buildings and empty lots, with some of the remaining businesses moving out to other industry parks near Greenfield. This was the case untill the city of Greenfield invested a large sum of money into the redevelopment in these areas called "the greater ashfield redevelopment plan", the plan was started in 2015 with the remaining abandoned factories being torn down and completely new areas being built, including the brand new mall in Clinton, large stores like the minekea moving into springfield and many new apartments and houses in both ashfield and northpark.

Glenview was hit hard during the earthquake, many of the original brick buildings, lining the main streets collapsed. And so did many other homes and apartment buildings in the area. 31 buildings collapsed.

Around 43 buildings collapsed in and around westwood, this area has and is still a very low income neighbourhood so many of the buildings werent up to standard and collapsed, this includes the Westwood Community Center which, during the earthquake, collapsed into the bay. Unfortunately this area today still has many collapsed buildings and unstable infrastructure from the earthquake as it was not a focus for the city of Greenfield.  

Only 2 buildings collapsed in downtown Greenfield, as many of these were up to standard. Unfortunately however, one of the bridges overpassing the interstate INTERSTATE NAME HERE, and a couple other parts of infrastructure collapsed in the financial core.

Glenview had