prieta

Having grown up in Santa Cruz, the place kind of died for me after the Loma Prieta Earthquake.

The 20 seconds of shaking during the Loma Prieta Quake certainly felt like minutes to me!

There's good stuff in John McPhee's Assembling California [1] about the '89 Loma Prieta earthquake, and about earthquakes in general.

At the time of the Loma Prieta earthquake we lived in a forest of 100 foot pine trees.

It was the most powerful earthquake to hit the Bay Area since the Loma Prieta earthquake of 1989, which collapsed a section of the Bay Bridge.

I lived through the Loma Prieta earthquake 6.9 and the San Simeon earthquake 6.5.

I remember a work colleague who lived through the Loma Prieta going from Berkeley to San Francisco and I’m sure it wasn’t pretty.

Maybe not tens of thousands of lives, but the scale is logarithmic, and in this quake, the amplitude was literally 10 times as strong as the 6.9 Loma Prieta quake in San Francisco during the 1989 World Series.

I was surprised to learn this (I moved to the Bay Are shortly after the Loma Prieta quake and have lived here ever since).

I was in mountain view for the '89 loma prieta quake.

I admit it was kind of nice after the Loma Prieta earthquake in 1989 and the dot-com bust in 2001 to have some breathing room.

Loma Prieta was pretty serious, particularly closer to the epicenter (and as I recall, damage sort of hopped and skipped among geologically unstable landforms for quite some distance).

The Bay Area is an area of "tectonic activity" (as evidenced by Loma Prieta in 1989, and now the the 6.0 from yesterday) - but I"m willing to wager fewer than 1 in a thousand people anchor their fridge to the wall.

You can see that in action if you look at photos of the Bay Bridge after Loma Prieta.

Loma Prieta, the earthquake, removed some freeways and opened up the Embarcadero, which was an industrial zoned ringed by a double decker freeway.

I've lived in California all my life and was in San Mateo during Loma Prieta.