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    The 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake occurred on California's Central Coast on October 17 at 5:04 p.m. local time. The shock was centered in The Forest of...
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    the Santa Cruz Mountains in Northern California. Although the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake was named for this mountain, the actual epicenter was five miles...
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  • Bridge and the Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) system, and the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake occurred before the start of Game 3. It was the first cross-town...
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    from the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake. Most of the group's early material was released on their own record label named Discos Huelga. Loma Prieta has toured...
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    After the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake, Caltrans initiated Phase 1 of its seismic retrofit program. After the 1994 Northridge earthquake, Caltrans initiated...
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  • needed] On October 17, 1989, an earthquake measuring 6.9 on the moment magnitude scale struck on the San Andreas Fault near Loma Prieta Peak in the Santa Cruz...
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    Cypress Street Viaduct (category Bridge disasters caused by earthquakes)
    October 17, 1989, the portion of the structure from 16th Street north to the MacArthur Maze collapsed during the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake, due to ground...
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    that earthquakes are sometimes preceded by a spike in ULF activity. A remarkable example of this occurred before the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake in California...
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    MacArthur Maze (category 1989 in the United States)
    1960s. Another round of extensive re-engineering followed the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake, including the addition of diamond lane ramps and a huge girder...
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    the Embarcadero to the Bay Bridge, was demolished after the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake, and Doyle Drive was then part of U.S. Route 101, until being...
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  • occurred in previously-identified seismic gaps. Prior to the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake(Mw = 6.9), that segment of the San Andreas fault system recorded...
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    largest in the San Francisco Bay Area since the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake. The epicenter of the earthquake was located to the south of Napa and to the northwest...
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    Alaska earthquake and 1964 Niigata earthquake. It was a major cause of the destruction produced in San Francisco's Marina District during the 1989 Loma Prieta...
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    During the 1989 Loma Prieta Earthquake". Conference Proceedings, Second International Conference on Recent Advances in Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering...
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    approximately 47% of the overall city population. The 6.9 Mw Loma Prieta earthquake occurred on October 17, 1989. The rupture was related to the San Andreas fault...
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    in Oakland, California, from 1962 until it was damaged in the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake. San Francisco Archbishop Joseph S. Alemany erected in Oakland...
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    June Struggle, Loma Prieta earthquake, fall of the Berlin Wall, and Hurricane Andrew. Brokaw scored a major coup when, on November 9, 1989, he was the first...
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  • examples of a possible earthquake precursor, is the 1989 Corralitos anomaly. In the month prior to the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake, measurements of the...
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  • civil engineering at the University of Bristol, and earthquake protection; the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake; Colin Taylor, head of civil engineering from 2006-11...
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    killed in 1989 by a drug dealer in West Oakland. The east end of the Transbay Tube is located in West Oakland. In the Loma Prieta earthquake of 1989, the Cypress...
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    liquefaction during strong earthquakes. This phenomenon caused extensive damage to the entire neighborhood during the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake. The area in the...
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    Earthquakes are caused by movements within the Earth's crust and uppermost mantle. They range from events too weak to be detectable except by sensitive...
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    shipping ports and airports on the West Coast. On October 17, 1989, a 6.9 magnitude earthquake struck the Bay Area at 5:04 p.m. The rupture was related to...
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  • since the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake, which measured 6.9 on the moment magnitude scale, but was later surpassed by the 2014 South Napa earthquake. Ground...
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    The building survived both the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake. By the 1870s it became apparent that San Francisco...
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    Soft story building (category Earthquake and seismic risk mitigation)
    half of all homes that became uninhabitable in California's Loma Prieta earthquake of 1989 and was projected to cause severe damage and possible destruction...
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    no damage is found. The largest to date was the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake. During the 1989 earthquake, a train passing through the Tube was ordered to...
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    Freeway), but was damaged along with the Embarcadero in the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake; both highways have since been replaced with the surface-level...
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  • After the Shock (category Films about earthquakes)
    The film is about the aftermath of the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake that hit San Francisco on October 17, 1989. Jack Scalia as Jack Thompson Yaphet Kotto...
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    the official name on October 17, 2016, the anniversary of the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake. Local schoolchildren helped pick the vessel's name. San Francisco...
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