The San Francisco Bay Area was rattled by a minor earthquake Friday morning that struck just off the coast, followed by at least two aftershocks. The 3.6 magnitude quake struck at 7:02 a.m. off the coast of San Francisco, with its epicenter about five miles southwest of the Golden Gate ...
That's just overan hour south of San Francisco, as you can see on the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake epicenter map above. Places all around the SF Bay Area sustained quite a bit of damage during this earthquake. DowntownSanta Cruz, less than 30 minutes from the epicenter, had significant dam...
Suspension BridgeThe new San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge will replace the seismically vulnerable East Spans of the existing bridge. The new bridge is designed to open to traffic within days after a maximum credible earthquake.Nader, Marwan
SAN FRANCISCO —A massive earthquake struck the Bay Area on Tuesday, killing scores of people, most of them in the collapse of a double-decked freeway in Oakland. Death toll estimates ranged from 62 to more than 200. Hundreds more were injured, scores of buildings were shattered or in flam...
The San Francisco Bay Area was celebrating on October 17, 1989, as both home teams faced off against each other in Game 3 of the World Series, the Battle of the Bay. The mood lasted until 5:04 p.m. when the Loma Prieta earthquake, a magnitude 6.9, shook
San Francisco 20th Century History: The City Builds Recovering from the jolt of the San Francisco earthquake of 1906, San Francisco continued to grow. The Panama-Pacific Exposition of 1915 conferred upon San Francisco the Marina District (newly filled land) and the beloved Palace of Fine Arts, ...
The older western side is officially called the Willie L. Brown, Jr. Bridge, although most people just call it the San Francisco side of the Bay Bridge Both sides were originally opened in 1936, but the eastern span was badly damaged in the1989 Loma Prieta Earthquake. They were not able ...
The 1.7-mile-long Golden Gate Bridge, an icon of the San Francisco Bay region, connects the city of San Francisco to Marin County, California. At its completion in 1937, the suspension bridge was considered an engineering marvel—the longest main suspension bridge span in the world. It held...
The new San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge will replace the seismically vulnerable East Spans of the existing bridge. The new bridge is designed to open to traffic within days after a maximum credible earthquake.doi:10.2749/222137805796271521Marwan Nader...
The iconic San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge (Bay Bridge) is an 8.4 mile (13.5 km) structure that connects Oakland and San Francisco, California. In October 1989, the Loma Prieta earthquake caused the upper deck of the bridge’s East Span to ...