The San Francisco Bay Area was celebrating on October 17, 1989, as both home teams faced off against each other in Game 3 of theWorld Series, the Battle of the Bay. The mood lasted until 5:04 p.m. when theLoma Prieta earthquake, a magnitude 6.9, shook for 20 seconds and changed the...
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...
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 ...
It was San Andreas that caused the 1906 San Francisco earthquake (magnitude 7.8), which killed more than 3,000 people and destroyed much of the city (Figure 4.3 illustrates how this earthquake would have been measured). It was also the cause of the 1989 Loma Prieta, California, earthquake ...
图片题注:Lake Merced, located in southwestern San Francisco参考译文:梅塞德湖位于旧金山西南部。图片作者:Dicklyon The nearby San Andreas and Hayward Faults are responsible for much earthquake activity, although neither physically passes through the city itself. The San Andreas Fault caused the earthquake...
While Engelhardt was earning his doctorate in metallurgy at University of California, Berkeley, the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake knocked down a section of the Bay Bridge, destabilized the Embarcadero Freeway in San Francisco, and disabled the city’s aging Transbay Bus Terminal. These events ...
The long-awaited extension of San Francisco’s “F” historic streetcar line opened on March 4, 2000, combining the existing service on Market St. with an additional 2.8 miles of new trackage along the waterfront Embarcadero. Prior to the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake, the Embarcadero had been ...
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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...
And the entire neighborhood was destroyed in the fire that followed the 1906 earthquake.SF Chinatown Alley, Before the 1906 EarthquakeFor a more detailed account of the life in San Francisco's Chinatown during the Gold Rush period, and after, see Chinatown history. ...