The Loma Prieta Quake of '89

Tuesday, October 17, 1989

At 5:04 PM, I was lying on my bed in the house we had rented earlier that year just down the hill from UC Santa Cruz, with my keyboard in front of me as I was dialed in to a machine at the university. Then the house started to shake...

For a description of my and others' earthquake experiences, see these posts


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Distant Smoke
Distant Smoke
{My first hint [...]}

Liz' Room
Liz' Room
{Poor Liz! And [...]}

Dierdre's Room
Dierdre's Room

John's Room
John's Room
{Somehow, the [...]}

Bed End
Bed End
{This is where I [...]}

Bookshelves
Bookshelves
{That's Mugi in [...]}

Bathroom Cabinets
Bathroom Cabinets

Laurel Street
Laurel Street
{Liz, Marlo and I [...]}

Ruptured Pavement
Ruptured Pavement
{This is the [...]}

Water Escaping
Water Escaping
{A broken water [...]}

Burning House 1
Burning House 1
{The source of [...]}

Burning House 2
Burning House 2

House Off Foundation
House Off Foundation

Collapsed Chimney
Collapsed Chimney
{This is the same [...]}

Cimarelli's Plumbing
Cimarelli's Plumbing
{Cimarelli's [...]}

Donatello's
Donatello's

SC Glass Co.
SC Glass Co.
{Looking through [...]}

Liz & Marlo
Liz & Marlo
{The rest of the [...]}

Upper Crust
Upper Crust
{The “PIZZA [...]}

Ford's Dept. Store
Ford's Dept. Store
{The side of [...]}

Liquor Store
Liquor Store
{This was the [...]}

Haber's Furniture
Haber's Furniture
{Note that the [...]}

Burning House 3
Burning House 3
{We passed by [...]}

Qarin's Room
Qarin's Room
{We've come back [...]}

Party at Cameron's
Party at Cameron's
{The night of the [...]}

Suck & Blow
Suck & Blow
{Later someone [...]}

Armory BBQ
Armory BBQ
{The day after [...]}

Building Damage 1
Building Damage 1

Cooper House
Cooper House
{The much-beloved [...]}

Mall Crowd
Mall Crowd
{The Pacific [...]}

SC Coffee Roasting Co.
SC Coffee Roasting Co.
{The building in [...]}

Building Damage 2
Building Damage 2

Boardwalk Flagpole
Boardwalk Flagpole

Boardwalk Arcade 1
Boardwalk Arcade 1
{The palm trees [...]}

Boardwalk Arcade 2
Boardwalk Arcade 2

House Steps
House Steps
{All that's left [...]}

Salvation Army
Salvation Army
{At the Salvation [...]}

   
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