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Deaths Injuries Comments 2018-05-04: Hawaii – Eastern rift zone: 6.9: M w: VIII: Moderate damage [1] ... Rhett Butler; The 1871 Lāna‘i Earthquake in the Hawaiian ...
1989 Loma Prieta earthquake: At least 63 people died and another 3,757 were injured. Major damage was caused in the San Francisco Bay Area, with many structures collapsing there. Also known as the World Series earthquake, it is the largest event to affect the area since 1906. 63 3,757 18 [156] Solomon Islands, Makira: 6.1 45.4 V – - - 18 [157]
List of earthquakes in 1989; 1989 Chenoua earthquake; 1989 Irian Jaya earthquake; G. 1989 Gissar earthquake; L. 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake; M. 1989 Malawi earthquake; N.
Death toll may have been a historical conflation with earthquakes on November 1137 in the Jazira plain and the 1138 Aleppo earthquake. [11] 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami: December 26, 2004: Sumatra, Indonesia: 227,898: 9.1–9.3: Death toll includes those missing and presumed dead. [10] 1303 Hongdong earthquake: July 25, 1303
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 events in the TV sitcom Full House episode "Aftershocks" (December 8, 1989) take place following the Loma Prieta earthquake; it centers on 7-year-old Stephanie Tanner having a hard time telling her father Danny about how she fears another aftershock might happen and kill him (since he is a widowed single father) as well as other members of the family.
see 1989 Newcastle earthquake: −32.95 151.61 13 5.6 M L This is the only deadly Australian earthquake recorded to date – February 8, 1990 15:15 local time Bohol Sea, Philippines; see 1990 Bohol Sea earthquake. 9.755 124.694 6 6.8 M w [90] [91] June 14, 1990: 15:41 local time Panay Island, Philippines see 1990 Panay earthquake: 11.34 122.10 ...
1989 was a turning point in political history with the "Revolutions of 1989" which ended communism in Eastern Bloc of Europe, starting in Poland and Hungary, with experiments in power-sharing coming to a head with the opening of the Berlin Wall in November, the Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia and the overthrow of the communist dictatorship ...