The earthquake significantly damaged the transportation system of the Bay Area. The collapse of the Cypress Street Viaduct (Nimitz Freeway) caused most of the earthquake-related deaths. The San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge was also damaged when a span of the top deck collapsed. In the aftermath...
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...
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...
TheseSan Francisco Earthquake booksinclude even more facts about the famous earthquakes in the region. They have first-hand accounts of what it was like during the shaking and what it took to rebuild after each one. The 1989 Loma Prieta San Francisco earthquake was the second most devastating e...
San Francisco - Urban, Hills, Bay: Hilly and roughly square, San Francisco occupies the northern tip of a peninsula. To its south are the bedroom suburbs of San Mateo county, to the east and northeast is the bay, and to the west and northwest lies the Pa
San Francisco Bay area62%6.7 or greater2002 Working Group Greater Bay Area63%6.7 or greaterSCEC/CGS/CEA Southern California60%6.7 or greater Hayward-Rodgers Creek Fault system (last major earthquake in 1868)31%6.7 or greater Calaveras Fault in the East Bay7%6.7 or greaterSCEC/CGS/CEA ...
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
On October 17, 1989, a magnitude 6.9 earthquake hit the San Francisco Bay Area, killing 67 people and causing more than $5 billion in damages. Despite the fact that the disaster was one of the most powerful and destructive quakes ever to hit a populated area of the United States, the de...
The New San Francisco Oakland Bay Bridge Self Anchored Suspension Span — Designed to Sustain a Maximum Credible EarthquakeSuspension BridgeSeismic DesignSteel BridgesPerformance Based DesignThe new San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge will replace the seismically vulnerable East Spans of the existing bridge. ...
Earthquake Victim (uncredited) Pepito Manaloto (2010) Jessica Gould San Francisco Office Worker (uncredited) Skateboard or Die (2018) Karen Gould San Francisco Office Worker (uncredited) Skateboard or Die (2018) Katie Grace Girl on Bridge (uncredited) Frame Switch (2016) Emily Marie Gra...