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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.
Probabilistic seismic hazard map. The earliest known earthquake in the U.S. state of California was documented in 1769 by the Spanish explorers and Catholic missionaries of the Portolá expedition as they traveled northward from San Diego along the Santa Ana River near the present site of Los Angeles.
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 ...
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 ...
This year's drill happens to fall on the 35th anniversary of the Loma Prieta earthquake. The 1989 temblor was a magnitude 6.9 and centered in the Santa Cruz Mountains. It rocked Northern ...
Loma Prieta, California, Earthquake October 17, 1989. Oakland. Oakland. Reinforcement bars lie at the base of the Cypress viaduct of Interstate 880 near 14th Street"
1906: Despite the devastating destruction of San Francisco by an earthquake on April 18, the U.S. Courthouse and Post Office survives; 1910: Repairs of earthquake damage to the U.S. Courthouse and Post Office are completed; 1933–1934: A four-story wing, designed by San Francisco architect George Kelham, is constructed on the east side of building
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