The hypocentral depth was 19 km. She asked to vote remotely due to COVID-19 and was denied.Sign up for the latest news, best stories and what they mean for you, plus answers to your questions. Some names may be pared as more is learned about their deaths, others could be added as overworked hospital staffs make tardy notifications to the coroner.“And some may die months later from injuries they suffered,” Carrier said.An analysis of what is known so far about the 57 quake victims reveals:In the coming weeks, Carrier said, coroner’s investigators will give particular scrutiny to cases involving heart attack victims. But Deputy Coroner Gabriel Morales said fright as a cause of death, perhaps in the form of a massive adrenaline rush, is not being ruled out.
A row of cars is crushed beneath a collapsed apartment building in Canoga Park.
People stand in line at a Canoga Park High School shelter to pick up children’s sweat suits donated by a sporting goods manufacturer. And the vast majority — 41 — died in the San Fernando Valley, scene of a disastrous apartment building collapse that killed 16. Clipboard, Search History, and several other advanced features are temporarily unavailable. “That’s fine. From the Archives: An emerging Northridge earthquake death toll 1 / 21 Only rubble remains at the junction of the 5 and 14 freeways following the 1994 Northridge earthquake. Most of the casualties occurred in wood-frame apartment buildings, popular in the San Fernando Valley, and particularly in those with weak first floors or lower-level parking garages.Property damage was severe and widespread; although the worst damage was sustained by The extent of the property damage in an area so well-prepared for earthquakes was staggering. Jessica Hernandez, 7, clutches her teddy bear outside the makeshift shelter where her family and other residents of a Van Nuys apartment complex are living because they are afraid of return to their homes.
The timing of the earthquake (early morning during a federal holiday) is thought to have prevented a higher death toll, as most residents were in their beds, rather than on failed freeways or in other collapsed structures (such as office buildings or parking lots). Sixty-one?“There’s a lot of fire departments and hospitals out there playing coroner,” said Scott Carrier, a spokesman for the Los Angeles County coroner’s office. )“We have some people who died at the time of the earthquake, and we have some people who died an hour later,” Carrier said. About 9,000 people were injured, and the damage costs were estimated at $25 billion. The primary duration was seven seconds, although there was shaking that lasted as long as 20 seconds. They do those pipeline inspections regularly.”Another death attributed in some reports to the quake involved an unidentified truck driver who died late Wednesday when his truck overturned on the transition road from Placerita Canyon Road to Sierra Highway, one of the detours around the shattered junction of the Golden State and Antelope Valley freeways.“That was a traffic accident,” Carrier said. The victims still unidentified are three people who died in the collapse of the Northridge apartment complex, a man who was killed inside a Northridge home, an 80-year-old man who died of a heart attack at a hospital, a 56-year-old man who died at an Inglewood home and four others who died of unspecified causes.BRACE, Elizabeth, 37, of Rancho Cucamonga, of head trauma.CERONE, Angeline (Ann), 80, in the collapse of the Northridge apartments.COLE, Norman, 79, of North Hills, of unspecified causes at a hospital.DEAN, Clarence W., 46, motorcycle officer, in the collapse of a freeway.ENGLAR, Sharon, 58, in the collapse of the Northridge apartments.ENGLAR, Phil, 62, in the collapse of the Northridge apartments.ENOS, Darla Rae, 43, in the collapse of the Northridge apartments.FITCHNER, Ted Peter, 28, of Chatsworth, from head trauma.HERNANDEZ, Jose, 45, in a fall from a sixth-floor window of a downtown hotel.KAMIYA, Hannah, 75, in a fall at her Los Angeles home.KHAYTMAN, Gennady, 45, of head trauma and a possible heart attack at hospital.KRELL, Dr. Burton, 59, in an auto accident when traffic signals failed.LEE, Howard, 14, in the collapse of the Northridge apartments.OSTERHOLT, Karen, 30, in the collapse of a hillside home in Sherman Oaks.PRESSMAN, Cecilia, 72, in the collapse of the Northridge apartments.PRESSMAN, David, 72, in the collapse of the Northridge apartments.RESKIN, Bea, 71, in the collapse of the Northridge apartments.REYES, Jaime, 19, in the collapse of the Northridge apartments.RIGGINS, Madeline, 92, of Reseda, of unspecified causes at a hospital.RUNNINGS, Carol, 48, in the collapse of the Northridge apartments.SANDOVAL, Manuel D., 24, in the collapse of the Northridge apartments.SLOTNIK, Adam, 27, in the collapse of the Northridge apartments.URIBE, Olga Robles, 26, in an auto accident when traffic signals failed.VALASQUEZ, Myrna, 18, in the collapse of the Northridge apartments.VASQUEZ, Margarita, 73, of unspecified causes at a hospital.VENTURA, Lionel, 20, of Sun Valley, when power to his respirator was knocked out at Holy Cross Medical Center.YOBS, Marc, 32, in the collapse of a hillside home in Sherman Oaks.TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers.This is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s print archive, before the start of online publication in 1996.