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Without Loma Prieta, in other words ... The December 1988 document includes diagrams of streetcar lines running alongside ivy-covered decks of concrete. A Ferry Building plaza with diagonal ...
"One of the lessons we learned during the Loma Prieta earthquake is how much soft ... a bullseye-like diagram showing the location of the epicenter and the intensity of seismic waves around ...
Then the Loma Prieta earthquake hit. The magnitude 6.9 temblor, named for the peak near the quake's epicenter in the Santa Cruz Mountains, lasted 15 seconds. It killed 12 people in San Francisco ...
The antennas atop Loma Prieta’s peak, top, rise into the sky as cows graze, at bottom, in Scotts Valley in this view from Scotts Valley High School. Loma Prieta is the highest point in the Santa ...
Thursday is the 30th anniversary of the Loma Prieta earthquake. It hit the San Francisco Bay Area on Oct. 17, 1989. One of the worst disasters of the earthquake was the collapse of the double-deck ...
STANFORD, Calif. (KGO) -- Stanford engineers have built and tested a building that withstood forces three times the intensity of the 1989 Loma Prieta Quake. The mock-up two-story house is ...
Dr. Susan Schwartz, a UCSC Seismologist, shows KSBW that there are still reminders of Loma Prieta on campus to this day. SANTA CRUZ, Calif. — Dr. Susan Schwartz, a UCSC Seismologist, shows KSBW ...