On this day 25 years ago: A devastating earthquake rattled Los Angeles in the early hours of the morning. "The death toll has been going up all day long," Tom Brokaw reports on our broadcast that evening. Tonight on NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt, Miguel Almaguer looks back on the quake that left billions of dollars in damage and whether the city is prepared for another. | NBC Nightly News with Tom Llamas

32 years ago, the 1994 Northridge earthquake struck Southern California on January 17th at 4:30am. It measured 6.7 magnitude and lasted approximately 8 seconds. The quake caused violent ground shaking, killing 57 people, injuring thousands, and resulting in $20-$40 billion in damages, making it one of the costliest earthquakes in U.S. history. At that time, the Simi Valley Police Department was located at its previous station on Cochran Street, which sustained damages during the earthquake. In 1