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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.
The earthquake measured 6.9 on the moment magnitude scale and while the epicenter was distant from the bridge, a 50-foot (15 m) section of the upper deck of the eastern truss viaduct portion of the bridge collapsed onto the deck below, indirectly resulting in one death at the point of collapse.
The official name of the bridge for all functional purposes has always been the "San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge", and, by most local people, it is referred to simply as "the Bay Bridge". Rolph, a Mayor of San Francisco from 1912 to 1931, was the Governor of California at the time construction of the bridge began. He died in office on June 2 ...
The collapse of the Bay Bridge forced Oakland players to return home via San Jose. In the immediate aftermath of the earthquake, ABC aired a rerun of Roseanne (and later, The Wonder Years) before Ted Koppel began anchoring news coverage from Washington, with Michaels acting as a de facto reporter. The Goodyear Blimp (which was already aloft for ...
"All of a sudden it felt like our truck was on a trampoline. It was just moving in every direction - up and down, side to side. And that was right at 5:04 p.m."
Great Aso Bridge collapse; K. Kobe Route span collapse; N. ... San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge This page was last edited on 29 March 2024, at 08:45 (UTC). Text ...
Dramatic video captured the moment the Key Bridge tumbled into the water at 1:28 a.m. Tuesday. The boat’s lights, after having gone out at 1:24 a.m., went back on one minute later, and dark ...
A man involved in a collision on the San Francisco Oakland Bay Bridge fled the scene by jumping into the water, the California Highway Patrol said.