When an earthquake collapsed two 50-foot sections of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge during the 1989 World Series, the nightmares of hundreds of thousands of commuters who cross the ...

Engineers say the new span of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge would be able to handle a large earthquake much better than its aging counterpart which was damaged by the Loma Prieta temblor in ...

OAKLAND, Calif. (KTVU) - In the aftermath of the Loma Prieta earthquake, the eastern span of the Bay Bridge, was designed to be seismically strong enough to withstand the largest potential ...

New %246.4B span expected to open this week; 1989 earthquake badly damaged the earlier bridge; Project beset by design disputes%2C cost overruns; SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Crews are on pace to put ...

Twenty years ago, a 6.9-magnitude earthquake collapsed two 50-foot sections of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge during the 1989 World Series, killing 63 people and injuring 3,800. Although ...

The San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge will be one of the safest places to be during a major earthquake when seismic improvements are completed in a few years, California Department of ...

Bea and Astaneh said the bridge has “low-robustness” or “fracture-critical” design, meaning one major flaw could cause the entire system to fail in a major earthquake. A recent forecast by the U.S.

OAKLAND — The San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge is closed to traffic this Labor Day weekend as workers scramble to ready the new, much-delayed and over-budget eastern span for Tuesday morning’s ...

A video of Taiwan commuters stopped on a bridge swaying after an earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 7.4 on Wednesday is going viral on social media — and it’s unsettling to watch.The ...

Before that, it was the 6.9 magnitude Loma Prieta Earthquake on Oct. 17, 1989, which disrupted the World Series, and wrecked the Bay Bridge, Oakland’s Cypress Freeway, downtown Santa Cruz, and ...