there were many shakes, lasting up to a minute in some, but they kept on having after shocks, each one was tetonic plates moving against or along each other, so it was kind of jerking along, then starts, then stops then a while later it would start again. the time from the first one to the last was about an hour-ish, could have been less, could have been more. the first one was at 5.04 and 15 seconds pm during the World Series, then they kept on having them.
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The Loma Prieta earthquake was caused by a slip in the San Andreas fault or the Subsidiary fault.
The San Franciscoâ??Oakland earthquake in 1989 was also called Loma Prieta earthquake. The earthquakes epicenter was in the Forest of Nisene Marks State Park in the Santa Cruz mountains.
That was the Loma Prieta Earthquake of October 17, which struck near Santa Cruz, south of San Francisco. It Killed dozens, injured thousands, caused several billion dollars worth of damage, and disrupted game 3 of the 1989 World Series.
It took months because so many buildings were destroyed in the Earthquake. The Interstate 880 freeway took 8 years to rebuild, and the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge has not yet finished rebuilding from the 1989 earthquake.
The October 17, 1989, Loma Prieta, California, Earthquake The October 17, 1989, Loma Prieta, California, Earthquake
15 long measley destructive seconds
The loma prieta earthquake in 1989.
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Loma Prieta
It was called the Loma Prieta earthquake, for the mountain closest to the epicenter.
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The Pacific and North American plates.
The 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake caused major damage to San Francisco.
62 People died in the Loma Prieta earthquake in Oct 1989.
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The Loma Prieta earthquake was caused by a slip in the San Andreas fault or the Subsidiary fault.