At 5:04 P.M. today it will be 19 years since the 7.1 Earthquake in The S.F Bay Area!!

I was living over there then and was going to turn the World Series on but never got the chance because the power went out.
Tuesday, October 17, 1989 at 5:04 p.m. Pacific Daylight Time, a magnitude 7.1 earthquake occurred on the San Andreas fault 10 miles northeast of Santa Cruz. This earthquake was the largest earthquake to occur in the San Francisco Bay area since 1906
The chandelier was hanging by its wires and the lamp that hung way down on a chain almost hit the ceiling. There was no phones service because all the lines were dead.
A few people my Dad knew from the train club died on the Cypress Structure.
His friend was on the top part when it came down and had to use a rope to get off.
The cousin had a broken leg.
My Dad work sent someone to our House to tell us he was going to stay and help with the Marina in San Francisco where the houses came down.
He did not come home for 3 days after that.
So many people died in the loma Prieta Quake and can not be forgotten.

Isn't that awful Is there a link so i can read about it?.

I was listening to the pre-game show, I think (I can't remember if the game had started) when it hit and you could hear the panic and everything on the radio.

Some links:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loma_Prieta_earthquake

http://pubs.usgs.gov/dds/dds-29/

http://www.vibrationdata.com/earthquakes/lomaprieta.htm

http://seismo.berkeley.edu/faq/1989_0.html

Oh i think i do remember now that i've seen those pictures

I was a senior in high school and was going to counseling at the police department (they had a program for teens with issues) when it hit. That was the only time I panicked in an earthquake... at least that i remember. The only reason was that I was in a room with no windows and the door was closed... the lights went out and made me freak. I was over in Hayward, so we didn't, for whatever reason, get much of the force of it. Even though Oakland, just north of us, got slammed. Only one or two things got knocked over at our house... one was a mirror someone gave me that was on a shelf and leaning against the wall... it tipped over but didn't break... too much junk in front of it.

It did feel, for a while, that the world stopped. Being so close to it all, seeing the tragedies, you hoped everyone you knew was okay. My world was still small then, really only in Hayward, and everyone I knew was okay... but it still hurt to see the tragedy around the Bay Area.

Amanda