Reseda Boulevard , originally named Reseda Avenue until May 1929 , is a major north-south arterial road that runs through the western San Fernando Valley of Los Angeles County , California . Reseda Boulevard runs approximately from the Santa Monica Mountains at the Marvin Braude Mulholland Gateway Park in the south to the Santa Susana Mountains and Porter Ranch in the north . It passes through the community of Tarzana , passes Mulholland Park gated community and El Caballero Country Club , then continues into the flats of the Valley through the communities of Reseda and Northridge , passes the campus of California State University Northridge , and ends at Porter Ranch . The epicenter of the 1994 Northridge earthquake was approximately one block west of the Boulevard , in its namesake community of Reseda . Damage occurred throughout the San Fernando Valley though areas of more widespread destruction followed along the boulevard 's northern course including an apartment building which stood at the time , the Northridge Meadows Apartments , where 16 people died when the top two floors collapsed on the ground floor apartments . Tom Brokaw broadcast the '' NBC Nightly News '' from the scene of the Northridge Meadows Apartments on the evening of the earthquake
1994 Northridge earthquake
1994 Northridge earthquake
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