Primary effects (instantly after)
>Buildings collapsed
>Tsunami
>Electric lines fall
Secondary effects (the next couple of days)
> Higher death toll
> Higher missing people toll
> Flooding
> Heavy rainfall
> Water disease
> Starvation
> Nuclear 'meltdown' feared
> 18,000 of Japan's Self-Defence forces are helping around 'hit' areas.
> Nuclear accident and radiation leakage
The effects of the 1989 earthquake included:
- 67 Deaths
- 6,000 Homes damaged / destroyed
- 2000 people made homeless
- Upper deck of the Nemitz highway collapsing onto the lower deck crushing people in their cars
- A section of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge collapsing
- Fire resulting from gas explosions
- Massive economic costs ($4.4 billion)
- Damage to infrastructure - electricity / gas and water mains cut
The primary impacts of an earthquake are the immediate effects of the ground shaking. Here are a few examples of the possible impacts:
the first primary effects were : The ground started shaking, things started to light on fire and buildings started to fall down , Crushing people and killing them
the secondary effects of an earthquake are people in hospitals, peoples deaths and peoples valuables destroyed :D
Panic for one. Congested hospitals, roads, and even downed communication and power lines. Gas fires from ruptured gas lines.
Oi, Soil liquefaction
they caught on fire
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The epicenter of the 1989 San Francisco was located in the Santa Cruz mountains. It was about 60 miles south of the city.
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 1989 World Series between the Oakland Athletics and the San Francisco Giants. An earthquake hit the Bay Area on October 17, 1989 about 30 minutes before the scheduled start of game 3. Game 3 was delayed 10 days. The Athletics won the Series 4 games to 0.
There have been a number of earthquakes that have affected San Francisco. Perhaps the most famous are the 1906 earthquake which is estimated to have resulted in 3,000 fatalities and the more recent 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake which resulted in 63 deaths.
The water bubbling up through the sand during an earthquake can bring things to the surface. For example during the 1989 earthquake in San Francisco, the Sand Boils brought up debris from the 1906 earthquake.
conjested hospitals roads and even damages
It was San Francisco that had the earthquake.
The 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake caused major damage to San Francisco.
San Francisco
San Francisco has suffered two notable earthquakes. One in 1906 and the other (the Loma Prieta earthquake) in 1989.
san-francisco
The epicenter of the 1989 San Francisco was located in the Santa Cruz mountains. It was about 60 miles south of the city.
Someone shouted and it was so loud that the earthquake happend in one second!
San Francisco
the answer is SAN FRANCISCO
san Francisco
It started at 5:04pm on the 17th October 1989