| Reminder from: | californiadisasters Yahoo Group | |
| Title: | 1989 Loma Prieta Earthquake | |
| Date: | Thursday October 17, 2013 | |
| Time: | 5:00 pm - 5:00 pm (GMT-08.00) Pacific Time (US & Canada) | |
| Location: | Santa Cruz Mountains/Bay Area | |
| Notes: | At 5:04 P.M. on Tuesday, October 17, 1989, a powerful M7.1 earthquake rocked Northern California's Bay Area caused by a bilateral rupture of the Santa Cruz Mountains segment of the San Andreas Fault. This quake killed 63 people and injured over 3700. The single greatest tragedy in this quake was the collapse of the Nimitz Freeway (I-880) double-decked freeway structure which killed 42 people. The other notable incident in this quake was the huge block-sized fire in the Marina which raged for hours after the quake and took a significant amount of the S.F.F.D. to stop. This fire occurred on the fill created by pushing the rubble of the 1906 earthquake into the shallows of San Francisco Bay. This disaster caused up to $12 billion in damage which at the time made it the costliest disaster in U.S. history. This quake famously occurred near the start of Game Three of of the "Bays Ball" World Series between the Oakland A's and the San Francisco Giants which series was delayed by the quake but Oakland ultimately swept 4-0. | |
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