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 ...

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 ...

The Loma Prieta earthquake, measuring 6.9 on the Richter scale, hit the San Francisco Bay Area on Oct. 17, 1989, at 5:04 p.m. local time during Game 3 of the World Series between the Oakland Athlet… ...

There have been a few trolls on the bridge over the years, but the legend of the first Bay Bridge troll begins in 1989. The Loma Prieta earthquake — a magnitude 6.9 on the Richter scale — collapsed a ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

When traffic flows across the new stretch of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge for the first time, it will do so nearly a quarter-century after a deadly earthquake during the 1989 World Series ...

Earthquake-prone California is a far from ideal place to string metal over water and hope it stays put. But engineers of the new eastern span of the San Francisco–­Oakland Bay Bridge say the ...