1989 San Francisco Chronicle California Earthquake World Series Giants-Athletics

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1989 San Francisco Chronicle California Earthquake World Series Giants-Athletics:
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Original and Complete San Francisco Chronicle newspaper Dated 10/18/1989that came out in very limited quantities the morning after the earthquake. This paper is complete and isoriginal standard newspaper condition.

The Loma Prieta earthquake, also known as the Quake of \'89 and theWorld Series Earthquake, was a major earthquake that struck the San FranciscoBay Area of California on October 17, 1989, at 5:04 p.m. local time. Caused bya slip along the San Andreas Fault, the quakelasted 10–15 seconds and measured 6.9 on the open-ended Richter Scale. The quake killed 63 people throughout northern California, injured3,757 and left some 3,000-12,000 people homeless.

Theearthquake occurred during the warm-up practice for the third game of the 1989World Series, featuring both of the Bay Area\'s Major League Baseball teams, theOakland Athletics and the San Francisco Giants. Because of game-related sportscoverage, this was the first major earthquake in the United States of America to haveits initial jolt broadcast live on television. Because of the unusualcircumstance that both of the World Series teams (the San Francisco Giants andOakland Athletics) were based in the affected area, many people had left workearly or were staying late to participate in after work group viewings andparties. As a consequence, the usually crowded freeways contained exceptionallylight traffic, whereas if traffic had been normal for a Tuesday rush hour,injuries and deaths would have been much higher. The 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake was one of the few times that the onsetof an earthquake of such magnitude has occurred during a live network televisionbroadcast, and as a result, the first moments of the earthquake were seenaround the world as it happened being televised that year by ABC. At the momentthe quake struck, sportscaster Tim McCarver wasnarrating taped highlights of the previous Series game. Viewers saw the videosignal begin to break up, heard McCarver repeat asentence as the shaking distracted him, and heard McCarver\'scolleague Al Michaels exclaim, \"I\'ll tell you what—we\'re having anearth—.\" At that moment, the feed from Candlestick Parkwas lost. The network put up a green ABC Sports graphic as the audio wasswitched to a telephone link. Michaels cracked, \"Well folks, that\'s thegreatest open in the history of television, bar none!\" accompanied by thecheering of fans who had no idea of the devastation elsewhere. ABC thenswitched to their \"rain delay\" backup program, Roseanne, whileattempting to restore electricity to their remote equipment. With anchorman TedKoppel in position in Washington, D.C., ABC News began continuous coverage ofthe quake about 5:40 p.m. (Al Michaels, in the process, became a de facto onsite reporter for ABC), at the same time as CBS News. NBC News also begancontinuous coverage, with Tom Brokaw, about an hour later. Because of theimportance of the World Series as a national sporting event, many members oflocal, regional and national broadcast media were in attendance and would laterbroadcast their observations of the aftermath of the earthquake to viewersaround the world.[50] In addition to broadcast news, many photojournalists werepresent, and a collection of their photos was released as the book FifteenSeconds: The Great California Earthquake of 1989, which was published soonafter the quake to raise money for the victims.

Fifty-sevenof the deaths were directly caused by the earthquake; six further fatalitieswere ruled to have been caused indirectly. In addition, there were 3,757injuries as a result of the earthquake—400 severely hurt. The highestnumber of fatalities, 42, occurred in the City of Oakland because of the failure of the CypressStreet Viaduct on the Nimitz Freeway (Interstate880), where a double-deck portion of the freeway collapsed, crushing the carson the lower deck. One 50-foot (15 m) section of the San Francisco – Oakland Bay Bridgealso collapsed, leading to the single fatality on the bridge. Three people werekilled in the collapse of the Pacific Garden Mall in Santa Cruz, and five people were killed in the collapse of a brick wallon Bluxome Street in San Francisco.

The quake causedan estimated $6 billion ($11 billion in current value) in property damage,becoming one of the most expensive natural disasters in U.S. history atthe time. It was the largest earthquake to occur on the San Andreas Fault sincethe great 1906 San Franciscoearthquake. Private donations poured in to aid relief efforts and on October26, President George H. W. Bush signed a $3.45 billion earthquake reliefpackage for California.The earthquake caused severe damage in some very specific locations in the SanFrancisco Bay Area, most notably on unstable soil in San Francisco and Oakland.Oakland City Hall was evacuated after theearthquake until US$80M seismic retrofit and hazard abatement work was completein 1995. Many other communities sustained severe damage throughout the regionlocated in Alameda, San Mateo, Santa Clara, San Benito, Santa Cruz, and Monterey counties. Majorproperty damage in San Francisco\'sMarina District 60 mi (97 km) from the epicenter resulted from liquefaction ofsoil used to create waterfront land. Other effects included sand volcanoes,landslides, and ground ruptures. Some 12,000 homes and 2,600 businesses weredamaged. In Santa Cruz,close to the epicenter, 40 buildings collapsed, killing six people. At theSanta Cruz Beach Boardwalk, the Plunge building was significantly damaged.Liquefaction also caused damage in the Watsonvillearea. For example, sand volcanoesformed in a field near Pajaro as well as in astrawberry field. In Moss Landing, the liquefaction destroyed the causeway thatcarried the Moss Beachaccess road across tidewater basin, damaged the approach and abutment of thebridge linking Moss Landing spit to the mainland and cracked the paved road onPaul\'s Island. In the OldTown historical district of the cityof Salinas,un-reinforced masonry buildings were partially destroyed. In Santa Cruz, the Pacific Garden Mall was severely damaged, with fallingdebris killing three people, half of the six earthquake deaths in the Santa Cruz and Monterey Counties. Some 31 buildingswere damaged enough to warrant demolition, seven of which had been listed inthe Santa Cruz Historic Building Survey. The four oldest had been built in1894; the five oldest had withstood the 1906 San Francisco earthquake.

The San Francisco – Oakland Bay Bridge sufferedrelatively minor damage, as a 76-by-50-foot (23 × 15 m) section of theupper deck on the Eastern cantilever side crashed onto the deck below. Thequake caused the Oaklandside of the bridge to shift 7 in (18 cm) to the east, and caused the bolts ofone section to shear off, sending the 250-short-ton (230 t) section of roadbedcrashing down like a trapdoor. Caltrans removed andreplaced the collapsed section, and re-opened the bridge on November 18. Theworst disaster of the earthquake was the collapse of the two-level CypressStreet Viaduct of Interstate 880 in West Oakland.The failure of a 1.25-mile (2.0 km) section of the viaduct, also known as the\"Cypress Structure\" and the \"Cypress Freeway\", killed 42and injured many more. During the earthquake, the freeway buckled and twistedto its limits before the support columns failed and sent the upper deckcrashing to the lower deck. In an instant, 41 people were crushed to death intheir cars. Cars on the upper deck were tossed around violently, some of themflipped sideways and some of them were left dangling at the edge of thehighway. Nearby residents and factory workers came to the rescue, climbing ontothe wreckage with ladders and forklifts and pulling trapped people out of theirmangled cars from under a four-foot gap in some sections. Some 60 members of Oakland\'s Public WorksAgency left the nearby city yard and joined rescue efforts. Employees fromPacific Pipe (a now-shuttered factory adjoining the freeway) drove heavy liftequipment to the scene and started using it to raise sections of fallen freewayenough to allow further rescue. Hard-hatted factoryworkers continued their volunteer operation without stopping night and dayuntil October 21, 1989, when they were forced to pause as U.S. President GeorgeH. W. Bush and California Governor George Deukmejianviewed the damage. The stubborn efforts of the rescue workers were rewardedjust after dawn on October 21 when survivor Buck Helm was freed from thewreckage, having spent 90 hours trapped in his crushed car under the rubble.Dubbed \"Lucky Buck\" by the local radio, Helm lived for another 29days on life support, but finally succumbed to respiratory failure at the ageof 57.

Theearthquake changed the Bay Area\'s automobile transportation landscape. Not onlydid the quake force seismic retrofitting of all San Francisco Bay Area bridges,it caused enough damage that some parts of the region\'s freeway system had tobe demolished. Damage to the region\'s transportation system was estimated at$1.8 billion.

* San Francisco – Oakland Bay Bridge,Interstate 80: The Bay Bridge was repaired and reopened to traffic in a month.However, the earthquake made it clear that the BayBridge, like many of California\'s toll bridges, required majorrepair or replacement for long-term viability and safety.

* Cypress Street Viaduct/Nimitz Freeway, Interstate 880: The double-decked CypressStreet Viaduct, Interstate 880 was demolished soon after the earthquake, andwas not rebuilt until July 1997. The rebuilt highway was a single- rather thandouble-deck structure, and was re-routed around the outskirts of West Oakland, rather than bisecting it, as the CypressStreet Viaduct had done. The former route of the Cypress Street Viaduct wasreopened as the ground-level Mandela Parkway.

* Embarcadero Freeway,California State Route 480: Earthquake damage forced the closure and demolitionof San Francisco\'sincomplete and controversial Embarcadero Freeway (State Route 480). Thisremoval opened up San Francisco\'sEmbarcadero area to new development. The elevated structure, which ran along San Francisco\'s waterfront,was later demolished and replaced with a ground-level boulevard.

* Southern Freeway,Interstate 280: Seismic damage also forced the long-term closure of Interstate280 in San Francisco (north of US 101), another concrete freeway which had neverbeen completed to its originally planned route. The uncompleted northernmoststub of I-280 was demolished during August–October 1995 while oneconnecting ramp between northbound I-280 and southbound US 101 was opened inDecember 1995. The full I-280 project was completed in late 1997.

* Central Freeway,U.S. Route 101: San Francisco\'s Central Freeway (part of US 101 and a keylink to the Bay Bridge flyover) was another concretedouble-deck structure which faced demolition because of safety concerns. Originallyterminating at Franklin Streetand Golden Gate Avenuenear San Francisco\'s CivicCenter, the section past Fell Street wasdemolished first, then later the section between Mission and Fell Streets. The section fromMission Street to Market Street was rebuilt (completed September 2005) as asingle-deck elevated freeway, touching down at Market Street and feeding intoOctavia Boulevard, a ground-level urban parkway carrying traffic to and fromthe major San Francisco traffic arterials that the old elevated freeway used toconnect to directly, including Fell and Oak Streets (which serve the city\'swestern neighborhoods) and Franklin and Gough Streets (which serve northernneighborhoods and the Golden Gate Bridge).

* State Route 17: Themountain highway was closed for about one month because of a landslide. Theroute crosses the San Andreas Fault in the Santa Cruz Mountains,near the earthquake\'s epicenter.

* State Route 1: In Watsonville, the Struve Slough Bridgecollapsed, with concrete/steel support columns punching through the bridge decklike toothpicks. The highway was closed for several months until it could bedemolished and rebuilt. Another section of Highway 1 through Monterey suffered damage and had to berebuilt as well. Additionally, the bridge carrying Highway 1 over the Salinas Rivernear Fort Ord wasdamaged and subsequently rebuilt.

* Bay Area Rapid Transit:The BART rail system, which hauled commuters between the East Bay and SanFrancisco via the Transbay Tube, was virtuallyundamaged and only closed for post-earthquake inspection. With the Bay Bridgeclosed because of its damage, the Transbay Tubebecame the quickest way into San Francisco via Oakland for a month, and ridership increased in the three work weeks following theearthquake, going from 218,000 riders per average weekday to more than 330,000post-quake, a 50 percent increase. BART instituted round-the-clock trainservice until December 3 when they returned to their normal schedule.

* TransbayFerries: Ferry service between San Francisco andOakland, which had ended decades before, wasrevived during the month-long closure of the Bay Bridgeas an alternative to the overcrowded BART. A ferry terminal was put together inAlameda, andthe Army Corps of Engineers dredged a suitable ferry dock at the BerkeleyMarina. Additionally, the demolition of the quake-damaged Embarcadero Freewayled to the Ferry Building Terminal renovation, increasing the efficiency offerry service to the peninsula. The passenger-only service proved popular andcontinues to expand its service.

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1989 SanFrancisco Chronicle California EarthquakeWorld Series Giants-Athletics