Violent Earthquake Strikes Northern California, Killing Dozens, Causing Widespread Damage; Sections of Bridge, Highway Collapse In Rush HourMartin Weil
Assessing the collapse risk of California's existing reinforced concrete frame structures: Metrics for seismic safety decisions. G. (2008). Assessing the collapse risk of California's existing reinforced concrete frame structures: Metrics for seismic safety decisions. John A Blume Earthquake Engineering ...
The most spectacular damage included the destruction of major structures at the Olive View and the Veterans Administration Hospitals and the collapse of freeway overpasses. The newly built, earthquake-resistant buildings at the Olive View Hospital in Sylmar were destroyed, four five-story wings pulled...
Nimitz Freeway collapse (1989). Rescues in 1989 Buck Helm was rescued after being buried for four days after the Loma Prieta earthquake. Oakland rescue workers pulled him from the wreckage of the collapsed Nimitz Freeway. Helm died less than a month later. Politics in 1991 California Governor ...
The Loma Prieta earthquake occurred the evening of Oct. 17, during the World Series, which made it a prime-time event. Centered in the Santa Cruz mountains 60 miles southeast of here, it claimed the lives of 63 people, 42 of them in the collapse of part of Oakland's double-deck Nimitz...
Aftershocks have hit the region between Northern California and Nevada Friday after a magnitude 6 earthquake sent large boulders rolling into highways and knocked smaller items off shelves. The quake shortly before 4 p.m. Thursday was centered south of Lake Tahoe near Walker, a rural community of...
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the needs of Hollywood might still have exaggerated its height. An appropriate towerdidexist at one time: The Mission at San Juan Capistrano once had a great stone church, with a 120 foot tall bell tower; but church and tower were destroyed in an earthquake in 1812. The present bell wall...
Re-leveling of the deformation network along Highway 395 during the summer of 1983 showed that the resurgent dome had been uplifted by an additional 7 cm over the winter. Following the intense January 1983 swarm, both the earthquake activity and deformation rates within the caldera activity began...
One man and two women died in Sacramento County whenHighway 99 floodedduring the New Year's Eve storm. Mei Keng Lamof San Leandro was one of the victims. The 57-year-old was found dead in a submerged car off the highway. Katherine Martinez, 61, of Orland, was found dead in her su...