Earthquake — California: Loma Prieta

When

18 Oct 1989

Kind

Earthquake

Magnitude

6.9

Where

Usa

Coordinates

37.04° N, 121.88° W

Deaths

62

Injuries

3757

Damage musd

5600

Intensity mmi

9

Depth km

19

Major earthquake in Northern California

On October 17, 1989, at 5:04 p.m. PDT, the Loma Prieta earthquake occurred on the Central Coast of California. The shock was centered in The Forest of Nisene Marks State Park in Santa Cruz County, approximately 10 miles (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 Santa Cruz Mountains.

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• NCEI significant earthquakes, tsunamis and volcanic eruptionsNOAA National Centers for Environmental InformationPublic domainSource page
• Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “The 6.9 Loma Prieta earthquake shakes the San Francisco Bay Area and the Central Coast with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent)”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Turkish), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “6,9 Mw büyüklüğündeki Loma Prieta depremi, San Francisco Körfez Bölgesi ve Orta Sahili'ni IX (Şiddetli) Mercalli şiddetiyle sarstı”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (German), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Beim Loma-Prieta-Erdbeben 1989 in der Bucht von San Francisco mit der Stärke 7,1 sterben 62 Menschen; die Sachschäden betragen 6 Milliarden Dollar”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Russian), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “землетрясение Лома-Приета магнитудой 7,1 в Северной Калифорнии (США)”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Spanish), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “en San Francisco, Estados Unidos, un terremoto de 6,9 deja 63 muertos y 3.757 heridos”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Japanese), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “サンフランシスコでロマ・プリータ地震”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page

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