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  • 0:55 probably was on cell phone.

  • @xxdarkheartsxx Yes...  in 1989.

  • @californiaprepping yea they had cell phones back in 1989. Not many people had them though.

  • 01:34 wtf happened to that car?

  • @blackent049 the freeway happened to that car

  • Fucking cunt could of at least tried to stop them.

  • @feistysmurf73 no kidding

  • I cant believe, then again not really, the camera guy could of tried harder to stop that car from driving into that!! Carefull next time it could be you.

  • I heard the Cypress freeway collapse for I lived about a half mile away. The earthquake ended and there was this pure moment of silence then BOOM! It was the loudest sound I ever heard and I didn't know what it was at that moment until later when I saw the news. That is one way I don't want to go and to this day, I hate being under bridges.

  • I mention 0:44 lol

  • 0:45 hahahahahhahahahahahahah what a freaking idot and the the car right behind him stops and thinks like awww he'll nah I an't ending up like him

  • the niners won in 2010

  • what's with these crappy videos. 

  • @protricitube made in the 90s man

  • wow. sad

  • Thats scary even the voice is scary!!!!!

  • I remember this day well....being out in the East Bay (an hour and a half from the epicenter), we felt a slight jolt but enough to cause a panic. Both my brother and I ran down a soccer field just as Loma Prieta ripped right through...to this day, watching the aftershock at home (where the ground literally jumped up in front of us!) scares me. Many thoughts to everyone who succumbed to injuries that day.

  • 1989 i was born i didnt mean to make such an entrance :'(

  • how's that film called?

  • was that poor old lady ok?

  • :52 sooo 80s

  • bridges should be able to bend.

    not keep rock steady then snap.

    R.I.P. the people who lost their lives.

  • i am NEVER going california

  • @kairilollypop Oh please.. I am a survivor of that quake that's in that video and nothing has happened like that ever since so california is safe.

  • why do they build their houses from wood?

  • @magiccheese01 that's americans for you they're fucking retarded even in tornado ally they build houses from timber LOL dumb americans.

  • @magiccheese01 Well, wood is a practical available material to build houses with here, but in respect with earthquakes, houses built from wood fair better than the other viable building material around here, which are bricks. If you've ever seen what an earthquake does to masonry, you would see why we build with wood instead. Wood is one of the best materials for anti-seismic construction since it's of low mass and is less brittle than masonry.

  • @magiccheese01 If you need examples, check out the damage from the Christchurch earthquake that happened not to long ago, and the L'Aquila earthquake that happened in 2009.

  • those images of crushed cars makes me never want to drive on the freeway!

  • The narrator is Avery Brooks, aka Captain Benjamin Sisko from Star Trek:Deep Space Nine. I know that voice anywhere!

  • @GEMINITREKKER What do you suppose... did he email the voice over from the dela quadrant? Or rather... the future of the detla quadrant...

  • damnit!!! only if I hadn't been born 7 years later... do the math people

  • his voice scares me O_o

  • @MrSlapTastic77 It's captain sisko dumb asses!

  • 2:03 is in one of my geography books

  • What's with the creepy ass narrator voice? perhaps it's to give you more chills while watching this.

  • @2800boy

    Its the voice of that guy who played ben sysco on star trek deep space 9

  • @2800boy this carvel ice cream cake is giving me more chills :D

  • The voiceover creeps me out.

  • well if u fucking idiots will stop cutting threw our earth and polutting the bitch we wouldnt have this problem now will we

  • @destiny5532 Er...yes we would. Earthquakes have happened since the beginning of time, even before people were cutting "threw" the earth. (Whatever the crap that means.) lol

    Stay in school.

  • thumbs up if u somehow like it when things burn

  • California never really wanted to be part of the USA they were pressured and became statehood in 1850s ! Don't assume all Americans are bad by killing Muslims , I'm not going to against Japanese ppl and Germans but in the past japanese men soldiers had raped Chinese woman then kill them ! Terrorist groups threats u.s and Europe with bombs , There are alot of hate in this world and a sad one 2

  • I CAN'T WAIT FOR THE BIG ONE... IT CLEAN THE VIOLENT SHITHEADS AND WASH OUT THE ORANGE COUNTY RICH ASSHOLES!

    YOU THINK LIFE IS SO BAD? PEOPLE ARE DYING IN JAPAN, YOU HAVE NO RIGHT TO BE A BITCH IN LIFE!

  • @ACRedsCreations Hey!! everyone in Orange County isnt rich try looking into Santa Ana and Buena Park!

  • @jusrayne Right, Not everyone, but there are some. but still, people take their lives for granted, and people still cause dramas, even when people across the world are dying left and right. It just pisses me off...

    I'm a folk rocker after all

  • How many fatalities were on the collapsed bridge?

  • the most of you watching this video cause japan!

  • Sorry, but suppose that I can say this: Someone put a bomb in the bottom of the ocean, later it exploded, deep in the ocean, it created an earthquake, later a tsunami... (???? !!!!! )Think about it, seriously and I will tell you this too: Evil is in the air, and he get sometimes, what he need... You can ask THEM...to those men that know about it, about the true.... The cold war never ended.. Please dont blame on my, ok...

  • @resfalgio lmao you're an idiot

  • Was that car thing REAL?!?!?!?!!

  • MOTHETR NATURE IS A BITCH!!!!!!!!!!

  • still americans r bull shit..... kill so mny muslims go in the hell now

  • @stylishpd LOL.....go in the hell now.........all Americans...........Kill so mny Muslims......I have not killed anyone,let alone any Muslims...I think I would know if I did.........You are an Idiot for saying such a stupid comment!!!!

  • @shootzbra yh dey r goin in hell u c in iraq , dey r bull shit soooooooooon amercia finshed in 2012 ..... u wil c man .... Inshallah ..

  • @stylishpd ok thanks.....Boo!!

  • Driver must have been like I'm judt driving in my automobile and ZOMFG WTF!!!!!!!!!!! don't worry though chuck norris rescued the driver seconds later folks

  • @Thechangerofways Chuck Norris jokes are not funny anymore. Please stop trying to be funny.

  • @dakarus they won't stop being funny. And i dont find them rofl or that but its gd to say em

  • I've never understood how being built on bedrock is an advantave in a quake. I would think you'de feel the shaking more since its the tectonic plates that are moving. I would think being on sand of softer materials would be an advantage becuase youde be cushioned more. Obviously I'm wrong but I've never understood why.

  • @Nash1a Well slow moving tectonic plates are what buildup the stress along faults but the stress being released in a quake along the faultlines will travel faster through softer soil and shake more.

  • @than217 it's called liquefaction. the same thing happened in the northridge earthquake in los angeles. the san fernando valley where i live is basically on floodplain silt. the bedrock hills were like a bathtub. the effect was the same too.  basically you're in a tub. but being on bedrock helps because it's solid and is like an anchor.

  • @Nash1a sand liquefies...I live in SF.....and my Apt shakes over a 2.1 in San Jose ...but i would rather feel the ground move at a steady flow than have the entire ground turn to water

  • @Nash1a -- it's called liquifaction. The softer bottoms become liquid-like, causing more devastation, not less. If you built a house on pudding and then shook the pudding really hard, what happens? This is why earthquakes in the SF area are so devastating, and like the one in Mexico City in 1985. Mexico City was built on top of an old lake bed that had been filled in with debris to make land -- just like SF -- and when the earth moves, the "land" becomes waterlike and there is no support.

  • @Nash1a it's because of liquefaction of soil. in an earthquake the soft soil turns into liquid. in an earthquake that is very dangerous as foundations of buildings don't have anything to stand on, and down goes the building. that is why it is better to be on harder ground during an earthquake. for example, look at the 1989 loma prieta earthquake, or the 1995 kobe earthquake, soil liquefaction contributed to a lot of the damage.

    hope i helped

  • @Nash1a You don't want to build on soft soil near a fault line. Soil will behave like a liquid in a strong quake.

  • @Nash1a AHAHAHAHA I'm from christchurch new zealand where almost the entire city is on sand and it definitely does not help it actually makes it a shit ton worse

  • @Nash1a i think they say because on soft sand the ground is unstable and buildings would sink into the ground and topple over because it's a more fin dirt. bed rock is stronger and holds the buildings supports.

  • @Nash1a

    Seismic amplification is to blame! Seismic waves slow down and increase in amplitude (amplify) when they travel from hard bedrock to soft sediment, thus the amount of shaking is greatly increased. To further worsen things, if the sediment is unconsolidated (not rock) you get liquefaction of the sediment upon shaking - essentially quicksand. Hope this helps.

  • @Nash1a -- the problem with 'soft' ground is something called "liquefaction".

    It means that the soil and underlying groundwater (even 15-20 feet down), will mix during the shaking, causing structures to shift and settle. This is not a good thing. Not at all.

    Of course, this is a very broad oversimplification. But it fits in the limited space for the replies, here on YouTube! Check Wikipedia for "liquefaction' and 'earthquake'.

  • @Nash1a - Shaking is worse on soft sediments because they behave like jello in an earthquake. If you shake a big bowl of jello, you will see that the surface of the jello in the middle of the bowl moves a lot, with all sorts of ripples, but at the edges, the jellow sticks to the firmer bowl and doesn't move so much. It is, of course, more complicated than that, but the weak sediments, especially wet, soft sediments, just flap around, while the bedrock is firm and doesn't move so much.

  • @Nash1a take some sand and pour it into a bucket with a cup of water underneath. Shake the bucket and watch all that water come up to the top. This is why this is no good, most of south of market is built on reclaimed land all the way to china basin.

  • That why i dont want to go live in USA X)

  • @lesdragoniers Naw, It only the western side that has earthquake problems. California, Oregon, washington etc. I live in Cal, been through a few quakes now but nothing bad. The rest of the US doesnt get earthqakes. Or if they do, its very very rare, or so small you wouldnt even notice it.

  • So for people this is funny??? show some respect try to imagine u r working in a whole or something and it collapse do you think still funny??? ...

    or u r in a school and your room suddenly collapse ?? -.-

  • 1:25 obama lol

  • Humm Hayward fault runs through the middle of the Memorial stadium in SF (Berkley)

    the next earthquake(>6.5) will happen not in LA but on these faults :Hayward, Calaveras, or San Andreas Northern section (Mendocino to San Francisco)

    75 % .

  • Find out when next earthquake will occur:

    WORLD-EARTHQUAKES . COM

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  • I was born that day...

  • This was very scary to me at 6 years old living in Alameda. I was on a bar stool watching my mom cook dinner and the chair fell over and i got pinned down. Mom rescued me to the bathroom doorway. I can only imagine what it was like for those people:(

  • Buck Helm lived for 2 days crushed in the 880!! was there @ Candlestick...

  • where is part 3?

    

  • 1:32 terrible dead

  • Oh...my...goshhhhh

  • 1:34, holy SHIT. imagine driving that car, jesus fuck

  • poor old lady on 1:37

  • Awwwwwwwwwwwwww how. Sad. Especially the old lady eternally bleeding.

  • @5xoxo5ana LOL! eternally bleeding... as in forever? I think you mean internally... as in inside.

  • holy crap that is bad

  • 1:37 feel real bad fir that lady

  • oh yah i read about this on a book called smiles, it said that bridge did that , would have hated to be on that piece of bridge eh?

  • 1:28 Tiny Tim!!!

  • THOMAAAAASS!!!! we need to go down there and help...

  • @90sStyle have some respect bro.

  • @90sStyle have some respect bro.

  • That guy driving into the hole tells a lot about people huh?

  • Be repared

    The next is much worse

  • @alsarem2012 they have been saying that for 60yrs..it will come little by little, not at once...

  • very sad :( the only part that made me giggle was 0:53 idk why but i did but its still very sad :(

  • that was brutal

  • 1:33 omg o.O

  • AT 1:33 iam scared of small spaces like that , i start to panic and loose my breath

  • @clevelandsmith65 im scared of those too i would be crying and wondering if anybody would find me

  • @figure261 thanks iam not alone :)

  • 1:34 U think he is dead ?

  • @nukeurhouse12 I'd say so...

  • 0:53 why did the car driving not see the hole?

  • @Mishka1959 what didnt the new yorker with the camera, block all the lanes ?

  • @Mishka1959 that person tried to pull a james bond car jump :(

  • @Mishka1959 It maybe sevaral this. Lack of consintration (they may have been looking in the rearview mirror) and the perspective may have blocked thier view. As I recall, some people foolishly tried to do a "James Bond" jump over the gap with thier cars, and failed

  • Probably texting.

  • @Mishka1959 Phone call.

  • @Mishka1959 Because it looks normal until the last second =/

  • @Mishka1959 it was realy hard to see....if you were driving that car you would probly make the same mistake

  • @Mishka1959 Plus, the driver was an out-of-country Tourist from the Figi Islands, probably unfamiliar with the area--told by the people in charge of directing traffic to go this direction. The person in the car stopped because they saw cars in the same lane going towards them and to far away to know until the first of the two vehicles went into it.

  • @Mishka1959

    Its in America. What do you think?

  • @Mishka1959 It wasnt a hole it was a whole section droped so if you are looking onward you only see that the road continues ..People wanted to get off the bridge and panic does weird things

  • @Mishka1959 she didnt see it because she was a short woman and had glasses, sadly this was on a documentry and sadly she died but her husband lived

  • @Mishka1959

    because when your driving you cant really see anything on the bottom and those people are freaked out

    even if they did see the hole, they wouldn't have time to stop

  • @Mishka1959 she was listening to Metallica head banging with there eyes shut like...

    TAKEN MY ARMS TAKEN MY LEGS TANKEN MY SOUL LIVIN MY LIFE IN HEEEE...OH SHIT!!!!!

  • @Mishka1959 Must of been a woman driver, TEEHEE

  • oh my god 1:28

  • fuuk earthquakes iz some freaky shit 7.1 in new zealand ths year waz yo skary!!!!

  • 1:34 - Motha**** :s

  • I wonder how Charles Bukowski fared during this.

  • This video makes me want to watch Night Court.

  • OMG!!

  • 0:53 ...did that car just drive into a hole?! didn't they see it?! well good for that lady for saying that they needed to help. oh god, this is so devastating. Now, since i live in California, i'm scared like hell now...

  • @lilazngurl563 Where in California do you live? If you live in the Oakland-San Francisco Bay area then you probably are better off than you would have been in 1989. You might want to read up on the 1989 Loma Prieta Earthquake and it's aftermath, a lot of the bridges and streets have been vastly improved since the earthquake and many buildings that weren't reinforced to standards are long since gone.

  • 0:53 lmao

  • @gartios11 its not funny

  • @ilovemsnx yes it is. just get a sense of humor brea

  • Why'd chuck Norris clap??!!

  • @SuperRedbaron221

    FYI, he did a pushup.

  • does anyone know of a video clip of the 1989 world series that shows what happened during the earthquake?

  • why are disturebing by us in god creation

  • @MrPdc9 lol wut?

  • i don't know what is worse the earthquake or this guy's voice that is narrating this video

  • my teachers uncle was on that bridge she said that he was inside the bus

  • oh it's benjamin sisko!

  • damn @ 1:10, death my pressure cook. that sucks balls, thats like 4 shitty ways to die at once

  • was this part of some documentary? it sure looks and sounds like it. i lived in california my whole life and greatful i never had to go through anything like this. now that i dont live in CA, i still freak out when i feel the smallest shake. unfortunately, CA sits directly on the San Andreas fault and, unfortunately, is still waiting for "the big one"

  • @TwiliPri1 Stop reading that "Big One" Propogana. People have been saying it for decades. The Big One hasn't happened and never will.

  • @Tornado1994 that's like saying just because LA doesnt get much rain it never rains in LA. Hopefully it will never happen but just in case, i'd rather be prepared. every part of the country has its thing and California has earthquakes. fact.

  • @TwiliPri1 I know. But a major one only hits once every decade. Pasa Robles being the last to hit the state at 7.0. in 2003. This decade will see a major California quake. All decades do.

  • @Tornado1994 that's what's so scary. you never get a warning with earthquakes. i just moved to texas and they have hurricanes and floods, they at least get a warning and a chance to prepare, sometimes days, even a week or two in advance. no one can predict an earthquake, its magnitude, or the horrors it will cause.

  • 00:53 This is really sad. I just saw a documentary about this Earthquake and the person driving is driving with her brother and this happens.

    The woman didn't survive but her brother did.

  • lol.. California has 100s of earthquakes everyday. You just dont feel more then half of them.

  • @TheCheese909 Correct. They're called "tremors". Also CA only gets hit by major quakes once every decade.

  • wow this is horrible

  • At :54 all ic can say is holy shit

  • 1:35 :'(

  • 0:54

    OUCH D:

    How'd he not know there was a big chunk of the bridge missing?!

  • I'll never forget that day. Gods, it was a horrific day. Even now I feel emotional watching the images of that collapsed freeway. Horrible. Horrible. I think my Dad finally banned us all from watching tv because we just couldn't stop and I am sure I had nightmares.

  • Lol who is the moron driving at 0:54? After a huge earthquake like that, I wouldn't have even made an attempt to drive on a bridge.

  • 0:54 *facepalm*

  • 0:53 you at least tell them to stop

  • 1:34

  • 0:55 sedan fail.

  • yes sir. thats soo tragic

  • At least I live in the hills...

  • for my own salvation. I dont see that in the bible.

  • OK Mr. wise i will bet you 10,000 $ that it wont happen. LOL if im right i will enjoy it, if you are right it wont matter. It dose not say it will end in 2011. I dont know what Bible you maybe be reading. KJV is the only one that is close to the turth. You should read the Bible where it says that only god will know the time of the end of the world. that has not be changed. Do i want to believe what 1 man thinks, or a group of men that made some website? No i study for my self.

  • We DON'T KNOW WHEN THE WORLD WILL COME TOO A END!!! it might end in, 5 4 3 2 boom... Your dead. It might end tomorrow it might end today! No one really knows..

  • wisemansheart also stop SPAMING that date. you said it, enough.

  • This is so sad! I remember watching the news live when it happened. But a much bigger quake is coming that will be world-wide. May 21 2011 will be the day of Gods wrath. The rapture, and The day of judgment. Then 5 months of 'hell on earth' until the end of the world, oct 21 , 2011. follow my name to learn how we can know this from the Holy Bible. The Bible gives us a calendar and timeline of all the important events in Gods salvation plan. May God have mercy on us all!