However, it was also a watershed moment in seismic research. On Oct. 17, 1989, destruction from the Loma Prieta earthquake killed 67 people and injured 3,757. [83], The earthquake changed the Bay Area's automobile transportation landscape. The moment magnitude was recorded at 6.9, and a surface wave magnitude of 7.1 was recorded after consultation with monitoring stations around the world. [33][34], In Santa Cruz, close to the epicenter, 40 buildings collapsed, killing six people. had already been overhead to cover the baseball game, and ABC used it to capture images of damage to the Bay Bridge and other locations. After ten days (the longest delay in World Series history), Game 3 was held in San Francisco on October 27 and Game 4 the following afternoon as the A's swept the Giants, four games to none. * Approximately 16,... Professional Paper 1550 seeks to understand the M6.9 Loma Prieta earthquake itself. [48] The Federal Communications Commission later investigated the issue of KNBR's EBS malfunction, calling the fail "revoked". 60 members of Oakland's Public Works Agency left the nearby city yard and joined rescue efforts. [75] Dubbed "Lucky Buck" by the local radio, Helm lived for another 29 days on life support, but then died of respiratory failure at the age of 58. Street-level Mandela Parkway now occupies the previous roadbed of the Cypress structure. [77] In the meantime, traffic was detoured through nearby Interstate 980, causing increased congestion. NBC Sports commentators Bob Costas and Jimmy Cefalo discussed the effect the temblor would have on the 1989 World Series. 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. When the quake struck at approximately 5:04 PDT, sportscaster Tim McCarver was narrating taped highlights of Game 2, which had been played two days prior across the Bay Bridge in Oakland. Oakland City Hall was evacuated after the earthquake until a US$80 million (equivalent to US$165 million today) seismic retrofit and hazard abatement work was completed in 1995. [52], At the intersection of Beach and Divisadero Streets in San Francisco, a natural gas main rupture caused a major structure fire. In Part 1 (of, On October 17, 1989, at 5:04 pm a magnitude M6.9 earthquake struck near Loma Prieta, California. Oakland Airport repair costs were assessed at $30 million (equivalent to $65 million today). Minor lateral spreading was also seen along the shores of San Francisco Bay and to the south near Monterey Bay. This became a political issue in the following days. Our photographic coverage reflects the time and resources available immediately after the event and is not intended to portray the full extent of earthquake damage. [100] Fans reported that the stadium moved in an articulated manner as the earthquake wave passed through it, that the light standards swayed by many feet, and that the concrete upper deck windscreen moved in a wave-like manner over a distance of several feet. "SFFD Fireboats: The History of the Fireboat Phoenix. I lived in Marin County, just north of San Francisco for most of the 1980′s. [22], The Marina district was built on a landfill made of a mixture of sand, dirt, rubble, waste, and other materials containing a high percentage of groundwater. "KNBR's response on Loma Prieta's Emergency Broadcast System activation failure", "The Department of the Interior and the National Science Foundation's articles on KNBR's Emergency Broadcast System activation fail", "The Gavin Report's article on KNBR's Emergency Broadcast System activation fail". On Oct. 17, 1989, and in the weeks that followed, the BART system came of age, proving its maturity and mettle as a lifeline for the Bay Area after the tragic Loma Prieta earthquake. It examines how the fault that generated the earthquake ruptured, searches for and evaluates precursors that may have indicated an earthquake was coming, reviews forecasts of the earthquake, and describes the geology of the earthquake area and the crustal forces... Professional Paper 1553 describes how people and organizations responded to the earthquake and how the earthquake impacted people and society. CBS News also began coverage around that same time with coverage from its San Francisco affiliate KPIX-TV. Heh! Because the rupture took place bilaterally, the duration of strong shaking was about half of what it would have been had it ruptured in one direction only. [60] Police arrested those who refused to stop searching. "[64] At that moment, the signal from Candlestick Park was lost.[94]. Caltrans has since received widespread backlash for not thoroughly studying the structure. A prototype early warning system to provide San Francisco and Oakland, California a few tens-of-seconds warning of incoming strong ground shaking from already-occurred M ≧ 3.7 aftershocks of the magnitude 7.1 17 October 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake was operational on 28 October 1989. [62] Widespread search operations were organized to find possible victims inside the remains of fallen structures. The failure of a 1.25-mile (2.0 km) section[70] of the viaduct, also known as the "Cypress Structure" and the "Cypress Freeway",[22] killed 42 and injured many more. Some 12,000 homes and 2,600 businesses were damaged. Shaken – and then stirred. EventpageTectonic summary, maps and data. The network put up a green ABC Sports “World Series” technical difficulties telop graphic while it scrambled to repair the video feed (the broadcast cameras and mics were powered by the local power supply), but audio from the stadium was restored after a few seconds via a telephone link: Al Michaels: Well, heh, I don't know if we're on the air... We are in commercial, I guess. 30 years later, we revisit the earthquake through the eyes of the scientists who experienced it. Movie of shaking intensity; normal resolution (960x540, 3.7 MB) HD resolution (1920x1080, 12 MB) Explanation of colors and earthquake features in the movie. With an Mw magnitude of 6.9 and a maximum Modified Mercalli intensityof IX (Violent), the shock was responsible for 63 deaths and 3,75… The strong motion records also allowed for the causative fault to be determined – the rupture was related to the San Andreas Fault System. [46] According to the Department of the Interior and the National Science Foundation's article on the "U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper #1552-A" (1999), KNBR was one of the first radio stations to return back on the air after the earthquake but failed to activate the EBS due to the staff being isolated in Candlestick Park. [52], The worst disaster of the earthquake was the collapse of the double-deck Cypress Street Viaduct of Interstate 880 in West Oakland. [59], Immediately, a number of civilians began to free victims from the rubble of Ford's Department Store and the Santa Cruz Coffee Roasting Company – both buildings had collapsed inward on customers and employees alike. [35] Two police officers crawled through voids in the debris, found one victim alive and another dead inside the coffee house. [19] The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) turned people who were homeless prior to the earthquake away from homeless shelters and provided shelter for those with homes prior to the earthquake. And studied it. [16], The contrasting characteristics of the 1906 and 1989 events were examined by seismologists Hiroo Kanamori and Kenji Satake. San Francisco earthquake of 1989, also called Loma Prieta earthquake, major earthquake that struck the San Francisco Bay Area, California, U.S., on October 17, 1989, and caused 63 deaths, nearly 3,800 injuries, and an estimated $6 billion in property damage. At sites with rocky terrain, the duration was shorter and the shaking was much less intense, and at locations with unconsolidated soil (like the Marina District in San Francisco or the Cypress Street Viaduct in Oakland) the intensity of the shaking was more severe and lasted longer. Because of the unusual circumstance that both of the World Series teams (the San Francisco Giants and Oakland Athletics) were based in the affected area, many people had left work early or were staying late to participate in after work group viewings and parties. At roughly 5:00 pm on October 17, 1989, a magnitude 7.1 earthquake occurred on the San Andreas Fault, centered near Loma Prieta in the Santa Cruz Mountains. Game 3 … [30], The earthquake caused severe damage in some very specific locations in the Bay Area, most notably on unstable soil in San Francisco and Oakland. Local History. Private donations poured into aid relief efforts and on October 26, President George H. W. Bush signed a $1.1 billion ($2.3 billion today) earthquake relief package for California. Limited phone service remained online, providing a crucial link to rescue workers. 1989 Loma Prieta Earthquake. The earthquake occurred due to slip in either the San Andreas Fault or a subsidiary fault. [41] About an hour and 40 minutes after the quake, Fox affiliate KTVU resumed broadcasting, with their news anchors, Dennis Richmond and Elaine Corral reporting from the station's parking lot. Between 1910 and 1989 there were 20 widely varying forecasts that were announced, with some that were highly specific, covering multiple aspects of an event, while others were less complete and vague. Recent Posts. The quake caused the Oakland side of the bridge to shift 7 in (18 cm) to the east, and caused the bolts of one section to shear off, sending the 250-short-ton (230 t; 500,000 lb; 226,800 kg) section of roadbed crashing down like a trapdoor. [37] Many homes were dislodged if they were not bolted to their foundations. One answer was replied saying that KNBR was "not primary" but KNBR "is an EBS station". [99], It is likely that the World Series game saved many lives, as Bay Area residents who would have normally been on the freeways were at home ready to watch the game when the earthquake hit. These are their stories. More moderate damage resulted from the August 8, 1989, shock (intensity VII, Very strong) when chimneys were toppled in Cupertino, Los Gatos, and Redwood Estates. I lived in Marin County, just north of San Francisco for most of the 1980′s. An answer was lastly then responded to KNBR, "One important thing we learned from the EBS and the quake was that we are still very unprepared to get out information quickly, clearly, and uninterruptedly. A three story building collapsed and was on fire at Beach and Divisadero, in the Marina district, San Francisco on October 17, 1989 during the Loma Prieta Earthquake. Andrew Lawson, a geologist from the University of California, Berkeley, had named the fault after the San Andreas Lake (prior to the occurrence of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake) and later led an investigation into that event. It has been 25 years since the 7.0 Loma Prieta earthquake rocked the San Francisco Bay Area at 5:04PM on October 17, 1989 causing widespread damage … Ground Shaking AnimationsTo better understand the distribution of shaking from past and anticipated future earthquakes, seismologists have constructed computer models of earthquakes and the resulting ground shaking. 30 years later, we revisit the earthquake through the eyes of the scientists who experienced it. Ground shaking was felt 50 km away in Moss Landing and the unconsolidated sediment of the … The Loma Prieta Quake occurred on October 17th, at 5:04 pm. And studied it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1989_San_Francisco_earthquake [28] The measurement instrument was a single-axis search-coil magnetometer that was being used for low frequency research. [76], Although the freeway reopened in stages between 1997 and 1999, it was not fully rebuilt until 2001 due to safety and reinforcement concerns. With a M6.5 event on the San Juan Bautista segment, or an M7 event on the San Francisco Peninsula segment, United States Geological Survey (USGS) seismologist Allan Lindh's 1983 forecasted rupture length of 25 miles (40 km) (starting near Pajaro Gap, and continuing to the northwest) for the San Juan Bautista segment nearly matched the actual rupture length of the 1989 event. It was a tragic reminder of the destructive power of earthquakes. The history of earthquake investigations in California has been largely focused on the San Andreas Fault System, due to its strong influence in the state as the boundary between the Pacific Plate and the North American Plate; it is the most studied fault on Earth. The Loma Prieta Earthquake struck at 5:04 PM, October 17, 1989. One 50-foot (15 m) section of the San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge also collapsed, leading to a single fatality, Anamafi Moala, a 23-year-old woman. Also in Los Gatos, one man died when he fell or jumped through a window and impacted the ground five stories below. [56][57] The apartment structures that collapsed were older buildings that included ground-floor garages, which engineers refer to as a soft story building. [28] From October 5, they reported that a substantial increase in noise was measured in the frequency range 0.01–10 Hz. The first is that the geometry of the San Andreas Fault goes through a transition every several thousand years. And lastly, the 1989 event did not occur on the San Andreas Fault. This movie shows shaking intensity as the seismic waves travel away from the earthquake epicenter over time. [51] After the Exposition, apartment buildings were erected on the landfill. [37] The Ford's department store in Watsonville experienced significant damage, including a crack down the front of the building. KNBR began using an emergency generator, hooking up the signal from a command center at the time right after their nearby studio was severely shaken during the quake, in which most of the KNBR staff were at Candlestick at the time due to the World Series having been played. Roughly half of the land the Cypress Viaduct was built on was filled marshland and half were somewhat more stable alluvium. Because it happened during a national live broadcast of the 1989 World Series, taking place between Bay Area teams San Francisco Giants and the Oakland Athletics, it is sometimes referred to as the "World Series earthquake". 30 years later, we revisit the earthquake through the eyes of the scientists who experienced it. One of the criticisms is that the only official announcement was simply "too slow" to air. ", "Forecasts of the 1989 Loma Prieta, California, earthquake", "Main-shock and very early aftershock activity", "1 Dead as 5.1 Quake Jolts Bay Area : Man, 19, Leaps to Death in Panic; Damage Minor", "Near-source modeling of the Loma Prieta earthquake: Evidence for heterogeneous slip and implications for earthquake hazard", "Broadband study of the source characteristics of the earthquake", "Profile of mortality from the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake using coroner and medical examiner reports", "Out of the Rubble. On October 17, 1989, at 5:04 pm a magnitude M6.9 earthquake struck near Loma Prieta, California. However, it was also a watershed moment in seismic research. [42] The Goodyear blimp[which?] Brocher, T.M., Gefeke, K., Boatwright, J., and Knudsen, K.L., 2018, Reported investments in earthquake mitigation top \$73 to \$80 billion in the San Francisco Bay Area, California, since the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2018–1168, 18 p., https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr20181168. [82] Cable cars and electric trains and buses were stalled in place – half of Muni's transport capability was lost for 12 hours. While the teams' stadiums had suffered only minor damage, it took several days for power and transmission links at Candlestick Park to be repaired. Local workers continued their volunteer operation nonstop until October 21, 1989, when they were forced to pause as U.S. President George H. W. Bush and California Governor George Deukmejian viewed the damage. The majority of landslides occurred to the southwest of the epicenter, especially along road cuts in the Santa Cruz Mountains and in the Summit Road area, but also along the bluffs of the Pacific Coast, and as far north as the Marin Peninsula. This October marks the 26th anniversary of the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake that shook the Bay Area during the late-afternoon on Oct. 17. [8][13], The ML 5.3 June 1988 and the ML  5.4 August 1989 events also occurred on previously unknown oblique reverse faults and were within 3 mi (4.8 km) of the M6.9 Loma Prieta mainshock epicenter, near the intersection of the San Andreas and Sargent faults. [53][54][55] The San Francisco Fire Department selected civilians to help run fire hoses from a distance because the nearby hydrant system failed. 30 years later, we revisit the earthquake through the eyes of the scientists who experienced it. [28] Precursor increases of noise apparently started a few days before the earthquake, with noise in the range 0.01–0.5 Hz rising to exceptionally high levels about three hours before the earthquake. McNutt, S., and Sydnor, R. In the 1989 earthquake, the water-saturated unconsolidated mud, sand, and rubble suffered liquefaction, and the earthquake's vertical shock waves rippled the ground more severely. Watch Jean describe her Loma Prieta experience here. This publication is part of the set of four multi-chapter USGS Professional Papers on the Loma Prieta, California, Earthquake of October 17, 1989: Professional Paper 1550, Earthquake Occurrence, Coordinators: William H. Bakun and William H. Prescott. [81], San Francisco Municipal Railway (Muni) lost all power to electric transit systems when the quake hit, but otherwise suffered little damage and no injuries to operators or riders. A Look Back Thirty Years After the Loma Prieta Earthquake This devastating 6.9-magnitude earthquake rocked Northern California on Oct. 17, 1989, with the Bay Area and Central Coast bearing the brunt of the impact. [38] In the Old Town historical district of the city of Salinas, unreinforced masonry buildings were partially destroyed. on October 17th. Muni relied on diesel buses to continue abbreviated service until electric power was restored later that night, and electric units could be inspected and readied for service on the morning of October 18. [18] In addition, there were 3,757 injuries as a result of the earthquake, 400 of which were serious. [12], Since many forecasts had been presented for the region near Loma Prieta, seismologists were not taken by surprise by the October 1989 event. (All four network-affiliated TV stations (KRON, KGO, KTVU and CBS affiliate KPIX) would recover enough to broadcast continuous breaking news coverage of the aftermath of the quake for the next several hours, some of it picked up and broadcast nationally over their respective networks, as well as on CNN, in a manner anticipating later major catastrophes such as the 1994 Los Angeles earthquake and the 9/11 terror attacks). [9], While a Mercalli Intensity of VIII (Severe) covered a large swath of territory relatively close to the epicenter (including the cities of Los Gatos, Santa Cruz, and Watsonville) farther to the north, portions of San Francisco were assessed at intensity IX (Violent). 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