Though we have always called it "The Sylmar Quake" what happened in 1971 was officially called "The San Fernando Earthquake". He told our KTTV reporter and photographer, "I thought that I was going to be killed." Supervising Nurse Gloria Meutzel thought the quake was a major attention-getter telling our crew at the time, "I didn't know what an earthquake was like. Glenn Pomeroy is the CEO of the California Earthquake Authority which provides homeowners and renters earthquake insurance. For the Sylmar Quake overall damage was estimated to be over a half a billion dollars.