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El terremoto de Loma Prieta de 1989, también conocido como el terremoto del '89 y el terremoto de la Serie Mundial, ocurrió en el Área de la Bahía de San Francisco de California el martes 17 de octubre de 1989 a las 17:04 hora local (00:04 UTC del 18 de octubre).
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 Nisene Marks State Park in Santa Cruz County , approximately 10 mi (16 km) northeast of Santa Cruz on a section of the San Andreas Fault System and was named for the nearby Loma Prieta Peak in the ...
The Loma Prieta earthquake was triggered by the mighty San Andreas Fault, where the massive Pacific plate slips northwestward. During the quake, the epicenter slipped up to two meters (six feet). The Loma Prieta earthquake caused 63 deaths, 3,757 injuries, and about $6 billion in damage.
Loma Prieta (from Spanish loma-hill, prieta-dark) is 3,790 feet (1,160 m) high and is the highest peak in the Santa Cruz Mountains in Northern California.
The Bay Area marks the 30th anniversary of the Loma Prieta earthquake on October 17th. If you were in the Bay Area on that day in 1989, you knew where you w...
Facts About the Loma Prieta Earthquake. When. 5:04 p.m., Tuesday, October 17, 1989. The shaking lasted 20 seconds. Where. The epicenter was on the San Andreas fault roughly 56 miles south of San Francisco and 10 miles northeast of Santa Cruz, near Mt. Loma Prieta in the Santa Cruz Mountains.
5 de ago. de 2019 · Learn about the magnitude 6.9 earthquake that struck the San Francisco and Monterey Bay regions on October 17, 1989. Find maps, animations, reports, and personal accounts of the event and its aftermath.
