DARYN KAGAN, CNN ANCHOR: In today's "CNN 20" report, a quake that struck a year before the Kobe disaster, this one on American soil.</s>BOB CAIN, CNN ANCHOR: We are just getting word of an earth tremor in the Los Angeles area. We are not sure yet how big, how serious it may have been,</s>TRACI TAMURA, LOS ANGELES FIELD PRODUCER: All I remember is being woken up with a big jolt. I was in bed, it was about 4:30 in the morning. The apartment at the time was rocking, the TV entertainment center went down, dishes were falling, it created quite a bit of damage, dozens of people we lost, thousands were homeless at the time. People camping out, they were scared to be inside of their homes for months afterwards. There was a water main that had broke and a gas pipe. Flames were, like, licking up in the air, you know, 50 feet high, I don't even know how high. And there was Interstate 5 and Interstate 14, where the overpass has basically collapsed. I mean, when you look at this huge freeway and, you know, Los Angeles is just filled with freeways and overpasses and you drive on them all the time, and so you the enormity of it when it's just -- half of it's gone. Personally, you experience the kind of terror of it, but then, on the duality of it, you are also covering it as a news person, and I think you kind of lose yourself in covering the story. But it is sad because you are faced with, really, right in front of you, human tragedy and the suffering of people who, you know, had lost their homes, apartments collapsed, and killed over a dozen people at another apartment. So you -- it touches you and it is your city.
CNN 20: Los Angeles Earthquake, January 17, 1994