Earthquake!

I couldn't ask anyone in my family about this because they knew nothing about it.

This major earthquake happened in 1971 around the San Fernando area in California. It took only 60 seconds to take the lives of 65 men, women, children, and injure more than 2000 people. Another 49 died where the hospitals collapsed. It is so crazy that in less than a minute, so much damage can happen. What if the earthquake lasted 30 minutes? Can you imagine the major damage that can arise? 

Three years later, Earthquake was produced using the actual events that happened in 1971 as part of it's plot. 

Earthquake used Sensurround in the movie theatre to give the audiences the sensation that the earthquake is really happening right then and there. That would scare the bejeezus out of me. And of course from this movie, a park attraction was created at Universal Studios. What a ride that would have been.

Mother Nature can really do some damage when unexpected. 

For damage pictures from the earthquake...

http://libraryphoto.cr.usgs.gov/cgi-bin/search.cgi?search_mode=exact&selection=San+Fernando+Earthquake,+February+1971|San+Fernando|Earthquake|1971

(http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/states/events/1971_02_09.php)