"The 1994 Los Angelos-Northridge Earthquake -- The above statement is not at all overly dramatic. It is a growing trend. The National Institute of Health's issu

"The 1994 Los Angelos-Northridge Earthquake -- The above statement is not at all overly dramatic. It is a growing trend. The National Institute of Health's issue of the January 2009 Environmental Health Perspectives Journal included a story from the 1994 Northridge earthquake which had knocked out the power in Los Angeles. Apparently local emergency centers then had received numerous calls from anxious residents reporting a strange, giant, silvery cloud in the dark sky. What they were really seeing - for their very first time - was the Milky Way, so obliterated by the urban sky glow that it had become forgotten and had practically become an urban legend." [1] [1] http://physics.fau.edu/observatory/lightpol-astro.html http://physics.fau.edu/observatory/lightpol-astro.html