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Sylmar Earthquake

This tablet presented February 9, 1979, to the Veterans Memorial Park, in loving memory of the many veterans, nurses, and aides of the San Fernando Valley Veterans Hospital, whose lives were lost during the earthquake of February 9, 1971. 
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The Sylmar Earthquake registered 6.6 on the Richter scale. 64 people were killed, including 44 at this hospital, which is now a memorial park.) 

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