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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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Damage from 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake, Emeryville, California. image credit: sanbeiji / Joe Lewis
During the magnitude 6.9 Loma Prieta earthquake of 1989, the ground floors of several apartment buildings in San Francisco's Marina District crumbled. Read more: Find out if your home or office ...
By RYAN GORMAN A massive earthquake that struck the Bay Area on October 17, 1989 forever changed the region, and potentially altered the course of baseball history. The 6.9-magnitude Loma Prieta ...
“It’s like somebody had stuff in a box and shook the box around,” one Hollister resident said in 1989. Loma Prieta earthquake shook Central Coast 33 years ago. See pictures of destruction
Loma Prieta, California, Earthquake October 17, 1989. Collapsed section of the San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge . image credit: United States Geological Survey
There's the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake during the World Series in the Bay Area and the Northridge quake of 1994 outside of Los Angeles. More recently, in July 2019, 6.4 and 7.1 tremors rocked the ...