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On October 17, 1989, at 5:04 p.m. local time, the Loma Prieta earthquake occurred at the Central Coast of California. The shock was centered in The Forest of Nisene Marks State Park in Santa Cruz County, approximately 10 mi (16 km) northeast of Santa Cruz on a section of the San Andreas Fault System and was named for the nearby Loma Prieta Peak in the Santa Cruz Mountains.
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The 6.9-magnitude Loma Prieta quake struck at exactly 5:04 p.m., at the height of rush hour and just before the first pitch of Game 3 of the World Series between the San Francisco Giants and the ...
The epicenter of the moment magnitude 6.7 (M w) blind thrust earthquake was beneath the San Fernando Valley. [3] Lasting approximately 8 seconds and achieving the largest peak ground acceleration of over 1.7 g, it was the largest earthquake in the area since 1971.
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The 2014 South Napa earthquake occurred in the northern San Francisco Bay Area on August 24 at 03:20:44 Pacific Daylight Time.At 6.0 on the moment magnitude scale and with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe), the event was the largest in the San Francisco Bay Area since the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake.
In October, 2016, San Francisco's new fireboat, helped the US Navy celebrate Fleet Week. St. Francis is a fireboat operated by the San Francisco Fire Department on San Francisco Bay since 2016. Also known as Fireboat 3 , she was given the official name on October 17, 2016, the anniversary of the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake . [ 1 ]