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For the record:
9:00 AM, Feb. 09, 2021The Loma Prieta earthquake was in 1989, not 1984.
Fifty years ago this morning, millions of people were violently jolted awake just after 6 a.m.
For 12 savage seconds, the ground shook. Overpass bridges tumbled into freeway lanes. Hospitals crumbled. The San Gabriel Mountains lurched several feet south. It was a shock and terror so immense that not all victims were felled by physical destruction eight of the 64 deaths attributed to Sylmar earthquake were caused by heart attacks. Parts of the northeast San Fernando Valley resembled a war zone.
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The first quake was over before the clock hit 6:01 on Feb. 9, 1971, though the aftershocks would continue for years to come.