Others had collapsed into the street,” she said. Essential work has always been essential work. For this column Bill scans and publishes 20-30 images from photos and negatives that haven’t been seen in many years. CLICK HERE to view the Readme file (1_README.TXT) for the CDROM verson of this publication in ASCII format. (They were in commercial at the time, but came back as the shaking was still going on, and yes, it was strong enough to be felt that far from the epicenter.) HDTV High-Definition Television[1536 x 1024 pixels] Sufficient resolution for high definition TV, newspapers, and high-quality half-page layouts. The town had already been behind in housing its residents when the quake hit. A San Francisco culture podcast, hosted by Peter Hartlaub. Reminiscent of the 1906 earthquake, the earth shook, like a table bumped, causing a house of cards to fall. Death, destruction, and havoc were again visited upon the San Francisco area in 1989. Boulder Creek resident Robert Buonasera narrowly missed going down with his house. Subscribe to the Chronicle Vault newsletter and get classic archive stories in your in-box twice a week. While the TV cameras focused on San Francisco and Oakland, the destruction wrought by the Loma Prieta earthquake spread through communities far to the south. The Red Cross set up shelters to house 450 people, but many stayed outside instead, fearful of buildings as aftershocks continued to come. Each 24-bit color image is stored as five resolutions: 1. Read hundreds of historical stories, see thousands of archive photos, and sort through 154 years of classic Chronicle front pages at SFChronicle.com/vault. It can be easy to forget that Santa Cruz County was hit hard by the temblor on Oct. 17, 1989, when most of the memories seared into the collective consciousness are … The Loma Prieta Earthquake struck at 5:04 PM, October 17, 1989. “Watsonville continued to move its homeless from makeshift tent cities near the hard-hit downtown to two professionally run tent cities with hot food, running water, medical care and privacy for large families,” reporter John Wildermuth wrote Oct. 24, 1989. Sign up for the newsletter here, and follow Chronicle Vault on Instagram. However, using the Universal Ektachrome or Universal Kodachrome transforms found in your software will provide excellent color. This folder was created in 2008 and contains .tif files as we received requests for them in this large, uncompressed, but common file format. It is fortunate that the epicenter of this large earthquake happened in such a remote area within the Forest of Nisene Marks State … Three were killed when an open-air shopping mall collapsed. Has just able to get out of the house during the Loma Prieta earthquake before his house slid down the hill, Seen here October 25, 1989 Photo ran 10/27/1989, P. A20. CLICK HERE to view a slideshow (slideshow.pdf; 36 MB). It’s part of Chronicle Vault, a twice-weekly newsletter highlighting more than 150 years of San Francisco stories. Loma Prieta, the 1989 San Francisco Earthquake. Aptos, California. The mall was destroyed by the Loma Prieta earthquake, October 20, 1989, Photo: Michael Maloney / The Chronicle 1989, A portion of Highway 1 collapsed through it's support foundation during the Loma Prieta earthquake, October 18, 1989, The media is taken on tour of Pacific Garden Mall, severely damaged by the Loma Prieta earthquake, October 23, 1989, Photo: Chris Stewart / The Chronicle 1989, A group of residents of Watsonville are staying in tents at the Watsonville High School because their homes are unsafe after the Loma Prieta earthquake, October 21, 1989 Families find useful clothes the boxes of donated clothes, Santa Cruz County towns face unique problems rebuilding after after the Loma Prieta earthquake, October 27, 1989, Warning signs were posted throughout the SantaCruz area beaches after the Loma Prieta earthquake caused sewer pipe leaks. It is edited by Taylor Kate Brown, The Chronicle’s newsletter editor. Where. Candlestick Park, hosting the World Series, rocked and shivered. Screen Resolution[786 x 512 pixels] Ideal for computer viewing and multimedia projects. By John K. Nakata, Charles E. Meyer, Howard G. Wilshire, John C. Tinsley, William S. Updegrove, D.M. Watsonville, a farm town 15 miles away, was even harder hit. In the Santa Cruz Mountains in the forest of Nisene Marks State Park, about 16 kilometers northeast of Santa Cruz and about 7 kilometers south of Loma Prieta Mountains, California. The epicenter was located near Loma Prieta peak in the Santa Cruz Mountains, approximately 14 km (9 mi) northeast of Santa … At 5:04 p.m. on Tuesday, Oct. 17, 1989, a magnitude-6.9 earthquake with an epicenter in the forests above Aptos abruptly ended Central California's long seismic slumber. The epicenter was approximately 8 miles north-northeast of Santa Cruz and 50 miles from downtown San Francisco. Hundreds of homes were knocked off their foundations, with 1 in 8 houses destroyed — the highest per capita damage of the whole earthquake. St. Patrick’s Catholic Church had to be ripped down and rebuilt. The 1989 Loma Prieta Earthquake's epicenter is deep in The Forest of Nisene Marks State Park. 5:04 p.m., Tuesday, October 17, 1989. by Garrett McAuliffe. The shock was centered in The Forest of Nisene Marks State Park 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 Santa Cruz Mountains. In the community of Watsonville, five miles from the epicenter of the earthquake, about 90 percent of the structural damage was from the failure of unreinforced masonry buildings and wooden structures which were not properly bolted to foundations. 3 of 159 Civilians assist firefighters in extinguishing the massive block-long fire at Divisadero and Beach Streets in the Marina District, which was triggered by … “The drain was already under way before 1989; the Oct. 17 quake worsened it.”. As the 30th anniversary of the quake approaches, a search through our photo archive turned up dozens of dramatic photos — most never published — from the aftermath of the quake in Santa Cruz and Watsonville. Figure 169 shows three simulated seismograms from the October 17, 1989, Loma Prieta Earthquake. “Some new buildings were standing as if nothing had happened at all. “He remembered staggering outside, the Earth’s violent rocking throwing him down three times and the Jaguar parked outside bouncing so high off the dirt road he could see underneath it,” DelVecchio wrote. Our photographic coverage reflects the time and resources available immediately after the event and is not intended to portray the full extent of earthquake damage. https://pubs.usgs.gov/dds/dds-29, Date created: December, 1995 The focal depth was 11 miles (typical California earthquake focal depths are 4 to 6 miles). At the time of this publication, Kodak's policy on the distribution of color-management files is still unresolved, and so none is included in this publication. This building housed a bicycle store and a law office before the quake. CLICK HERE to view a Fact Sheet about the 10 years since the earthquake (https://pubs.usgs.gov/fs/1999/fs151-99/). Seen here October 25, 1989 Photo ran 10/31/1989, P. A6, A woman carries a box go donated food provided by volunteers, to families in Callaghan Park in Watsonville because they're homes are unsafe after the Loma Prieta earthquake, October 21, 1989, Virginia Romero hands out clothes the to the group of residents of Watsonville who are staying in tents at the Watsonville High School because their homes are unsafe after the Loma Prieta earthquake, November 15, 1989 Photo ran 11/20/1909, P. A6, Santa Cruz County agriculture faces severe losses after the Loma Prieta earthquake, October 28, 1989, Workers move the rubble of the damaged greenhouses after the Loma Prieta earthquake, October 26, 1989, A weary fire fighter leans against a tree seated next to pile of rubble in the Pacific Garden Mall in downtown Santa Cruz. It just took a pandemic for many to recognize it as such. San Francisco and San Mateo County Coast, IX. “The killer quake that walloped the Bay Area Tuesday tore gaping holes and ripped deep, ragged fissures in the rugged Santa Cruz Mountains where it was born,” reporters Tracie Thompson and Rick DelVecchio wrote a few days after the quake. A Journey to the Epicenter of the 1989 Loma Prieta Earthquake Located deep in the Santa Cruz Mountains in an area known as The Forest of Nisene Marks is … The Loma Prieta earthquake, also known as the Quake of '89 and the World Series Earthquake, [4] was a major earthquake that struck the San Francisco Bay Area of California on October 17, 1989, at 5:04 pm local time. The epicenter was located at 37.04° N. latitude, 121.88° W. longitude near Loma Prieta peak in the Santa Cruz Mountains, approximately 14 km (9 mi) northeast of Santa Cruz and 96 km (60 mi) south-southeast of San Francisco. “Then the rains made a mess of the job.”. The building was damaged by the Loma Prieta earthquake and may have to be demolished , October 20, 1989, A search dog os checking rubble near a landslide on Bonny Down Beach in Santa Cruz County after the Loma Prieta earthquake, October 23, 1989, Santa Cruz County towns face unique problems a year after after the Loma Prieta earthquake, October 15, 1990, The De la Cruz and Shaffer boys play, as both families are sleeping out under the stars on Brewington Street in Watsonville because they worry homes are unsafe after the Loma Prieta earthquake, October 19, 1989, A family in Watsonville who used to live in the house in the background now lives in this tent because their home is unsafe after the Loma Prieta earthquake, November 15, 1989, A group of residents of Watsonville still I've in FEMA trailers a year after the Loma Prieta earthquake, October 9, 1990 Photo ran 10/15/1990, P. A4, Nine months after the Loma Prieta earthquake, Santa Cruz Hardware was located in a large tent, in a parking lot behind the site of Pacific Garden Mall, which was severely damaged by the quake, July 10, 1990, Photo: Deanne Fitzmaurice / The Chronicle 1990, Robert Buonasera removes from valuables from his house near Boulder Creek in the Santa Cruz mountains. Like what you’re reading? There was one death in Watsonville, and no significant Urban Search and Rescue requirements. “It was just a double whammy,” said Terry Medina, the town’s police chief. MAGNITUDE AND EPICENTER The Loma Prieta earthquake occurred on October 17, 1989 at 5:04 p.m. Pacific Daylight Time. CLICK HERE to browse the print-resolution images (TIFs at about 2000 x 3000 pixels; /tif folder). The earthquake occurred when the crustal rocks comprising the Pacific and North American Plates abruptly slipped as much as 2 meters (7 ft) along their common boundary-the San Andreas fault system. The Cypress Freeway in Oakland pancaked. The digital images are stored in the "photocd" folder and can be read across Macintosh, Windows, DOS, OS/2, SGI, and UNIX platforms which have applications that can read Kodak's Photo-CD (YCC) file format. : We found the winner of The Chronicle’s ‘Batmobile’ contest, Chess legend George Koltanowski: An archive deep dive of record-breaking chess champion and Chronicle columnist, Essential workers risk their health amid the pandemic. Pow! “Toward the end of the shake, the house gave way, tipping 6 feet over the edge of the ravine and coming to rest at a 45-degree angle. 1989 Earthquake Epicenter Area. He was inside inspecting the damage down to the structure. Federal Center, Denver, CO 80225 The epicenter was located in the Santa Cruz Mountains west of Loma Prieta Peak on a previously undiscovered fault near the larger and well known San Andreas Fault. The earthquake occurred … Seven people died in the county, and more than 800 were injured. This publication contains 103 digitized color 35-mm images from Open-File Report 90-547 (Nakata and others, 1990). To contact the senior author, email John Nakata (jnakata@sightandsound.com), Sight & Sound Productions. (P.d.t. Feel free to use any of these images but please cite the photographer and the U.S. Geological Survey. The epicenter of the Loma Prieta earthquake was in the Santa Cruz Mountains, about 16 … It also has links rather than files for the Adobe Acrobat Reader installer and the Fact Sheet mentioned below. In the hierarchy of file formats, Photo CD (YCC) resides above BMP, EPS, GIF, JPEG, MOV, PCX, PICT, PSD, TIF, TIFF, etc., enabling end users to go from YCC to other formats, but not in the other direction without losing image quality. The duration was 15 to 20 seconds. Though the Loma Prieta earthquake of 1989 lasted only for a duration of roughly 20 seconds, it was one of the worst earthquakes to have hit the San Francisco Bay Area in California; leaving over 63 people dead and injuring thousands more. To get the slideshow to advance automatically in your copy of Adobe Acrobat Reader, set File, Preferences, Full Screen, to Advance Every 2 Seconds. The data for this publication total 606 MB on the CD-ROM and 564 MB for this online version. On October 17, 1989, at 5:04:15 p.m. (PDT), a magnitude 6.9 earthquake severely shook the San Francisco and Monterey Bay regions. A six-mile hike in Nisene Marks State Park to the epicenter of the Loma Prieta earthquake of 1989. A madrone tree and a big freezer in the basement kept the structure from tumbling down the ridge.”. BRUCE BABBITT, Secretary, U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY The shock was centered in The Forest of Nisene Marks State Park 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 Santa Cruz Mountains. He does research for reporters and editors and manages the photos, negatives and text archives. The Loma Prieta Earthquake was a powerful earthquake that struck at 5:04PM on Tuesday, October 17, 1989 in the San Francisco Bay area in Northern California (USA). Smack! It can be easy to forget that Santa Cruz County was hit hard by the temblor on Oct. 17, 1989, when most of the memories seared into the collective consciousness are of the dramatic devastation around the Marina, the Embarcadero, the Bay Bridge and the Cypress Structure. The earthquake caused severe damage in some very specific locations in the Bay Area, most notably on unstable soil in San Francisco and Oakland. The Loma Prieta earthquake moved his house about a foot down the hill. Oct. 17 marks the 25th anniversary of the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake. And downtown Santa Cruz largely ceased to exist. “Most stood wordless before the trench, awed by the jagged wound in the redwood forest,” the reporters wrote. “It was terrible, it was brutal.”. The diagonal beams are the original ones, while the straight ones were added by Reid. This publication consists of the online version of a CD-ROM publication, U.S. Geological Survey Digital Data Series DDS-29. The 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake occurred in Northern California on October 17 at 5:04 p.m. local time (1989-10-18 00:04 UTC). The preview thumbnail and screen-resolution images listed above are in GIF and JPEG formats, respectively, but undergo resolution loss due to downsizing, compression and (or) color-palate reduction relative to the original Photo CD images provided below. 4. The earthquake measured 7.1 on the Richter scale, classifying it as "major".The earthquake ran along the San Andreas Fault, the epicenter was located near the Loma Prieta peak in the Santa Cruz Mountains. Let's Work Together! In Forest of Nicene Marks State Park, a state historic sign marks the approximate Ground Zero for October 17, 1989's Loma Prieta Earthquake, a magnitude 7.1. Up-to-date information about Photo CD is on the World Wide Web at http://www.kodak.com/go/photocd. One 15-foot-deep crack along a driveway drew gawkers. Each was recorded at a different seismic station. “It was eerie,” Mardi Wormhoudt, then mayor, told Chronicle writer Carl Nolte 10 years later. More than 4,500 people were displaced and the damage created a homelessness crisis in one of the county’s agricultural centers and remade downtown Santa Cruz. Last modified: July 2, 2009, IV. High Resolution[3072 x 2048 pixels] Provides the printing industry with resolution sufficient for high-quality full-page layouts at 300 dpi/150 lpi and 24-bit color. On Oct. 17, 1989, the magnitude 6.9 Loma Prieta earthquake hit the Bay Area. An earthquake shook the stadium during ABC's live broadcast. • The big one: Long-forgotten Loma Prieta quake photos show disaster’s depths. We expect that the shaking in the next 1906-type earthquake will probably not be much more intense than the shaking felt in 1989 near the epicenter of the Loma Prieta earthquake, but it will last longer -- perhaps 45 to 60 seconds or more. Ground shaking was felt 50 km away in Moss Landing and the unconsolidated sediment of the Moss Landing spit … The shaking lasted 20 seconds. Santa Cruz looked as if it had been bombed. Major property damage i… Many other communities sustained severe damage throughout the region located in Alameda, San Mateo, Santa Clara, San Benito, Santa Cruz and Montereycounties. • Changed region: All of our 30th anniversary coverage of the 1989 quake. Dozens of houses in the Santa Cruz Mountains had either collapsed or slid off their foundations, leaving 200 people homeless in the area. This devastating 6.9-magnitude earthquake rocked Northern California on Oct. 17, 1989, with the Bay Area and Central Coast bearing the brunt of the impact. Charles G. Groat, Director. Disclaimer: Any use of trade, product, or firm names is for descriptive purposes only and does not imply endorsement by the U.S. Government. Bill started working at the Mercury News in 1980, when nothing in news libraries was digital. “Downtown crumpled into the street,” Nolte wrote. The images in this file are 1024 x 768 pixels. San Francisco earthquake of 1989, also called Loma Prieta earthquake, major earthquake that struck the San Francisco Bay Area, California, U.S., on October 17, 1989, and caused 63 deaths, nearly 3,800 injuries, and an estimated $6 billion in property damage. This publication provides images for use by the interested public, multimedia producers, desktop publishers, and the high-end printing industry. While most of the nation's attention in the days after was focused on the Bay Area, the earthquake's epicenter was in The Forest of Nisene Marks State Park, much closer to Santa Cruz and Watsonville. The epicenter was on the San Andreas fault roughly 56 miles south of San Francisco and 10 miles northeast of Santa Cruz, near Mt. In one rented home, “four young male farm workers were sleeping inside, ignoring the condemnation notice posted by city inspectors on the front door.”, “No place to go,” Raul Bacerrea, 23, told DelVecchio through a translator. • Oral history: The shaken Series — A’s vs. Giants in the World Series, an unprecedented slice of Bay Area sports history. (1) Find the differences in arrival time between P and S using Figure 16.9. It had a moment magnitude of 6.9 and a surface wave magnitude of 7.1. 2. Oakland City Hall was evacuated after the earthquake until a US$80 million (equivalent to US$165 million today) seismic retrofit and hazard abatement work was completed in 1995. Use them to answer the following: 2 Where was the epicenter? He has a weekly column “From the Archive”, that focuses on photo coverage of historic events. Loma Prieta in the Santa Cruz Mountains. The buildings was damaged by the Loma Prieta earthquake , October 20, 1989 Photo ran 10/25/1989, P. A1, Photo: Deanne Fitzmaurice / The Chronicle 1989, Resident Kenny Reid shores up pilings under his from his house near Lompico Canyon in the Santa Cruz mountains. “I know the sign says danger, but I don’t have anything going.”. Life after disaster: Chronicle’s oldest negatives show a return to normality in 1906, Bam! We especially thank Alpha CD Imaging of Menlo Park, Calif. for their technical assistance. 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