Loma Prieta Earthquake – California – October 18, 1989
Damage was extensive and large as twenty-five miles of the San Andreas Fault slipped. On October 18, 1989, an earthquake of magnitude 6.9 struck a branch fault of the San Andreas near the city of Santa Cruz in the southern Santa Cruz Mountains. It came to be known as the Loma Prieta earthquake after the …
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