A section of the Bay Bridge’s upper deck collapsed during an earthquake that struck the San Francisco area on October 17, 1989, requiring lengthy repair (see San Francisco earthquake of 1989). In September 2009 the bridge was briefly closed to allow for replacement of a section of the easte...
Collapse fuels Bay Bridge fears of daily commutersJeff Vice Deseret Morning News
Bill proposing Bay Area bridge toll increase for public transit paused State Sen. Scott Wiener joined KTVU on The Five on Monday to discuss a bill that is on pause that proposed a toll increase for Bay Area bridges. He warns that public transportation agencies are in dire need of the fundi...
Indeed, it was none other than the blimp Columbia (now the Eagle) that provided early shots of the Bay Area Earthquake in 1989, as the ship was in perfect position to film the huge San Francisco fire and partial Bay Bridge collapse from its lofty perch. Crayton, who was flying the ship...
However, the safety net failed on February 17, 1937, when it gave way under the weight of a scaffolding collapse; of the 13 men who were on the scaffolding, one jumped clear, two survived the fall into the water, and 10 were killed. One other worker fell to his death during the ...
(Kobe area) Earthquake. The Matsunohama Viaduct has two base-isolated bridges: Bridge A and Bridge B. In a study by Chaudhary et al.[30], the performance of the isolation system during the 1995 Great Hanshin (Kobe area) Earthquake was investigated by means of a system identification method...
Liquefaction of the landfill in the Marina District, intensified the shaking and caused building after building to collapse.(ADAM TEITELBAUM/AFP) The area was originally a lagoon, filled in by rubble from theGreat San Francisco Earthquake of 1906. The poor soils increased the shaking and eventuall...
In the collapse of a 50-foot section of the upper roadway on the Bay Bridge, one car toppled into the gap. With the bridge blocked and subway service under the bay halted until damage to the Bay Area Rapid Transit system could be assessed, ferries reportedly were offering free rides to ...
This section did sit over the water, and the bottom section held up, so it didn't completely collapse into the water. Many residents that lived nearby in West Oakland started to do whatever they could to help rescue those trapped on the bridge. ...
The bridge collapsed about 9:30 a.m. in Nanfangao, a tiny but often-crowded Pacific coast fishing village. The weather at the time of the collapse was sunny, hours after a typhoon swept across parts of the island. Disaster relief officials would not say if the storm ...