![]() We have to prepare for when an earthquake will happen, because it will. At one point, Lawrence (Giamatti) says something along the lines of: “It’s not a matter of ‘there may or may not be an earthquake’, it’s when.” That’s the case with most areas with high seismic activity. What you do really see is the value of preparedness. But I suppose that’s the whole point of this sort of blockbuster Hollywood movie. San Andreas is entertaining and the special effects are amazing, but the chaos and destruction is exaggerated. ![]() An indication it had awakened after a decades-long quiescence following the massive stress relief of the 1906 quake.Watch the Guardian Film Show’s verdict on San Andreas – video Guardian Conclusion It was a far worse earthquake for Santa Cruz and Watsonville, with much of their downtowns reduced to shambles.įor the region's metropolitan areas, it was a seismic shot across the bow and a reminder of the intense activity of the San Andreas Fault system of the 19th century. The national media quite incorrectly reported it as a "San Francisco earthquake." It was not. San Francisco and Oakland, at 40 miles distant, suffered damage from what was for those two cities a distant epicenter. ![]() In Hollister, my grandmother's house - sitting on an 1870 mud sill foundation fashioned out of old-growth 2圆 redwood planks some 20 miles from the epicenter - rocked and rolled and emerged entirely intact, just as it had after the 1906 quake. In San Francisco, five people were killed on 6th Street between Bluxome and Townsend when a brick façade collapsed onto a sidewalk. Hundreds more could possibly have died had they been in the wrong place at the wrong time on the usually-packed Cypress Street viaduct on the Nimitz freeway. Many were soon to be treated to the sight of the underside of their dining room tables as thousands of houses pitched and rolled. By 5 p.m., many fans were already off the roads and parked in front of their television sets to watch the game.ĪLSO READ: Loma Prieta Hero Looks Back On Harrowing Marina Rescue 30 Years Later ![]() It was sheer luck that the quake happened as the San Francisco Giants were playing the Oakland A's in Game 3 of the Bay Bridge World Series at Candlestick Park. A section fell out of the old deck and truss section of the Bay Bridge. The area shook like a bowlful of jelly, the district having been a former lagoon, filled in with the cinders and debris left behind by the earthquake that struck 82 years earlier.Īt Beach and Divisadero, an entire building went up in flames. The earthquakes struck a part of the southern Santa Cruz mountains segment of the San Andreas fault that was give a 30% probability of a M7+ earthquake sometime in the 30 years stretching beyond 1988.ĪLSO READ: Magnitude 4.1 earthquake strikes near Isleton in the Delta, triggers ShakeAlert warning Lindh to stroke his robust then red beard and raise an eyebrow. The two moderate shocks near Lake Elsman - a magnitude 5.3 quake in June of 1988 and a magnitude 5.4 temblor in August, 1989 - caused Dr. I know there's just something up with those."ĪLSO READ: Memories linger years after Loma Prieta Earthquake rocked the Bay Area He leaned back in his chair in early October of 1989, and said, "Those Lake Elsman earthquakes. Legendary geologist and onetime head of USGS Menlo Park Allen Lindh suspected something was on the way. SAN FRANCISCO - Over three decades after the powerful Loma Prieta earthquake struck, some experts maintain that the strongest quake to hit the Bay Area since 1906 could have been much more destructive. Looking back at the Loma Prieta earthquake 34 years later 02:34
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