Loma Prieta earthquake | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 09/06/2019

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00:02:58 1 Background
00:04:32 1.1 Forecasts
00:07:48 1.2 Foreshocks
00:10:52 2 Earthquake
00:13:15 2.1 Characteristics
00:15:21 2.2 Ground effects
00:16:48 2.3 Injuries and fatalities
00:19:05 2.4 Magnetic disturbances
00:20:47 3 Damage
00:25:02 3.1 Marina District
00:27:19 3.2 Santa Cruz and Monterey counties
00:30:37 3.3 San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge
00:32:35 3.4 Oakland and Interstate 880/Cypress Viaduct
00:37:17 3.5 Effects on transportation
00:47:50 4 1989 World Series
00:53:43 5 In popular culture
00:58:15 6 See also



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The 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake occurred in Northern California on October 17 at 5:04 p.m. local time (1989-10-18 00:04 UTC). The shock was centered in The Forest of Nisene Marks State Park approximately 10 mi (16 km) northeast of Santa Cruz on a section of the San Andreas Fault System and was named for the nearby Loma Prieta Peak in the Santa Cruz Mountains. With an Mw magnitude of 6.9 and a maximum Modified Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent), the shock was responsible for 63 deaths and 3,757 injuries. The Loma Prieta segment of the San Andreas Fault System had been relatively inactive since the 1906 San Francisco earthquake (to the degree that it was designated a seismic gap) until two moderate foreshocks occurred in June 1988 and again in August 1989.
Damage was heavy in Santa Cruz County and less so to the south in Monterey County, but effects extended well to the north into the San Francisco Bay Area, both on the San Francisco Peninsula and across the bay in Oakland. No surface faulting occurred, though a large number of other ground failures and landslides were present, especially in the Summit area of the Santa Cruz Mountains. Liquefaction was also a significant issue, especially in the heavily damaged Marina District of San Francisco, but its effects were also seen in the East Bay, and near the shore of Monterey Bay, where a non-destructive tsunami was also observed.
Because it happened during a national live broadcast of the 1989 World Series, it is sometimes referred to as the "World Series earthquake". Rush-hour traffic on the Bay Area freeways was lighter than normal because the game, being played at Candlestick Park in San Francisco, was about to begin, and this may have prevented a larger loss of life, as several of the Bay Area's major transportation structures suffered catastrophic failures. The collapse of a section of the double-deck Nimitz Freeway in Oakland was the site of the largest number of casualties for the event, but the collapse of man-made structures and other related accidents contributed to casualties occurring in San Francisco, Los Altos, and Santa Cruz.