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3 days ago · Map of the 1989 San Francisco–Oakland earthquake (also known as the Loma Prieta earthquake). The quake struck with a moment magnitude of 6.9 on October 17, just before the start of the third game of the World Series, which was being held at San Francisco's Candlestick Park.
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2 days ago · The San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge, known locally as the Bay Bridge, is a complex of bridges spanning San Francisco Bay in California. As part of Interstate 80 and the direct road between San Francisco and Oakland, it carries about 260,000 vehicles a day on its two decks. [3] [4] It includes one of the longest bridge spans in the United ...
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2 days ago · Ruptures along the nearby San Andreas Fault caused severe earth movement in the San Francisco Bay Area in 1906 and 1989. San Andreas quakes induces creep (movement occurring on earthquake faults) in the Hayward fault, which runs directly through Oakland, Berkeley, San Jose and other Bay Area cities.
- 43 ft (13 m)
- The large oak forest that originally covered the area
1 day ago · San Francisco, city and port, coextensive with San Francisco county, northern California, U.S., located on a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay. It is a cultural and financial centre of the western United States and one of the country’s most cosmopolitan cities. Area 46 square miles (120 square km).
1 day ago · The Giants were swept in the 1989 World Series by their cross-Bay rival Oakland Athletics, a series best known for the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake, which caused a 10-day delay between Games 2 and 3. The Giants also lost the 2002 World Series to the Anaheim Angels .
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3 days ago · The 1989 World Series Trivia Quiz This Series was probably remembered more for the earthquake that delayed it's conclusion. Some call it the Loma Prieta Series.
3 days ago · This seismogram is from the Ny-Alesund seismic station at Spitzbergen. The noise was caused by a magnitude 5.4 offshore earthquake along the Gakkel Ridge in the Arctic Ocean. The quake hit at 3:31 AM, local time, on 19 May 2024. A magnitude 4.4 aftershock occurred nearby about 108 minutes later. The Gakkel Ridge is a mid-ocean ridge in the Arctic Ocean that formed by tectonic divergence ...
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