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General => The Superdeep Borehole => Topic started by: ManaByte on October 17, 2009, 12:45:52 AM

Title: 20 years since the Loma Prieta earthquake in San Francisco
Post by: ManaByte on October 17, 2009, 12:45:52 AM

October 17th 2009 is the 20th anniversary of the quake. Who here remembers it? It interrupted Game 3 of the 1989 World Series between the Giants and A's:
[youtube=560,345]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bOAP8p7ux_Y[/youtube]

Small section of the Bay Bridge collapsed, causing a car to fall through:
[youtube=560,345]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xT9VkN-T9eI[/youtube]

And of course the big thing was that the Cypress Street Viaduct collapse and crushed all the cars in it.
(http://img.timeinc.net/time/daily/2009/0910/sf_earthquake_1014.jpg)
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/18/Cypress_structure.jpeg/800px-Cypress_structure.jpeg)
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c5/LomaPrieta-Marina-crushed-car.jpeg)
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8f/Bay_Bridge_collapse.jpg)
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/86/022srUSGSCyprusVia.jpg)

Title: Re: 20 years since the Loma Prieta earthquake in San Francisco
Post by: CrystalGemini on October 17, 2009, 08:43:06 AM

I had a high fever so everything was already pretty fucked up looking/feeling to me anyway.  Was at my grandma's house in Oakland with my mom, cousins and aunts just lying on the couch when it hit.  Everybody was screaming and panicked but as my head was pretty much burning from the fever the fear never really set in so I was thinking more clearly than everyone else and told everybody to get under a table or door.   :lol

Title: Re: 20 years since the Loma Prieta earthquake in San Francisco
Post by: brawndolicious on October 17, 2009, 08:06:55 PM

I was less than a year old.  I do remember the the much smaller 1990 quake though.

Title: Re: 20 years since the Loma Prieta earthquake in San Francisco
Post by: chronovore on October 18, 2009, 10:33:58 AM

Quote from: CrystalGemini on October 17, 2009, 08:43:06 AM

I had a high fever so everything was already pretty fucked up looking/feeling to me anyway.  Was at my grandma's house in Oakland with my mom, cousins and aunts just lying on the couch when it hit.  Everybody was screaming and panicked but as my head was pretty much burning from the fever the fear never really set in so I was thinking more clearly than everyone else and told everybody to get under a table or door.   :lol

That's pretty epic. You were, ironically, the cool-headed one.

I was living in Bonny Doon at the time. It was bizarre; the house I lived in had a panoramic window, one whole side was glass. The earthquake made the whole thing look like liquid, because it moved in a wave.