The October 17, 1989 Loma Prieta Earthquake

At 5:04 P.M., Tuesday, October 17, 1989, as over 62,000 fans filled Candlestick Park for the third game of the World Series and the San Francisco Bay Area commute moved into its heaviest flow, a Richter magnitude 7.1 earthquake struck. It was an emergency planner's worst-case scenario. The 20-second earthquake was centered about 60 miles south of San Francisco, and was felt as far away as San Diego and western Nevada. Scientists had predicted an earthquake would hit on this section of the San Andreas Fault and considered it one of the Bay Area's most dangerous stretches of the fault.

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