What the records say
- When
- 18 Oct 1989
- Kind
- Tsunami
- Coordinates
- 37.04° N, 121.88° W
- Deaths
- 62
- Injuries
- 3757
- Damage musd
- 5600
- Max water height m
- 1
- Source quake magnitude
- 6.9
- Runups
- 4
Placed at the area, not an exact site.
1989 Loma Prieta earthquake
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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The source
- NCEI significant earthquakes, tsunamis and volcanic eruptionsNOAA National Centers for Environmental InformationPublic domainSource page
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