Earthquake Stops The World Series (1989)

[MrWill99313]

I was at Marin Headlands, making my way home from Stinson to Walnut Creek, I saw the Marina on fire, from the Golden Gate, out my car window, smelled strong odors of gas on Bay st, went thru a flood at the ferry building, I was turned back by the CHP, trying to get on the Bay Bridge, I had to go up and over market and potrero at the time, and go around san jose to get home. arrived at 10:30pm, to a very worried family....

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@plumbasketball32

I did lol

[offiacialYniC]

whats wrong wit stuart scott

???

[JEFFSNICKELL]

@offiacialYniC his scary eye! LOL! 0_o

[bpicou26]

I did lol

[plumbasketball32]

who just watched this because of the power out at the steeler 49er game?

[jnyerere]

I was in my mother's belly when this earthquake happened. born on 12-28-89.

[BerkeleyBuilt]

i felt 3 earthquakes within a week here in the Bay, & i'm watching the world series too!

[Teankun]

One of those interesting occasions of which a sports reporter winds up reporting non-sports news.

[MrThodgin]

I remember when this happened, I was a sophmore in high School...

[melodymyheart]

My kids and I was in that earthquake and it was a scary day for us.I have never been in one in my life and dont want to be in a another one.Both my kids are grown now and still havent forgot that scary day.That ruin us ever wanting to live in California again.My poor dog ran away ,but he did came back after 8 hours later.It scared him badly too.I do thank God that nothing happen to us.

[2011mrkingofkings]

Wow, I wasn't even born yet when this happen. My Dad watched his favorite team the Giants playing the Athletics in the World Series (when both teams are in their fourth meeting in the World Series) and this earthquake almost ruined the World Series. But, he was disappointed when the Athletics won the series.

[hunter12345643]

pause at 7 seconds

[xaqshuna2003]

2:08 - 2:32 MR. DRAMATIC BOB LEY

[xaqshuna2003]

Stuart Scott sucks, but Bob Ley is worse. He's way overdramatic and exaggerates every single scandal. He's a sad man with even worse hair.

[RyanTheIncredible882]

5.2, really? Pretty sure it was a 6.9 at the epicenter at Loma Prieta, might have felt like that in the city itself.

[Coastergeekperson04]

@RyanTheIncredible882 Worse... 7.1 at the epicenter. I've sat straight through 5.2 unharmed.

[yeahmedude]

I love raw eyewitness reporting.

[Virgostar285]

It was a 7.1 and the 1906 was a 7.8. Think about it, can a 5.2 earthquake really produce that much damage?

[sole2niners]

5.2 my ass. It was a 6.7

[uyd]

OMG, I remember feeling this earthquake all the way up in Davis, CA. I was a student at UC Davis and in a dorm on campus. We were all getting ready to watch the first game on TV when the quake hit and all hell broke loose. Let's hope the 2010 series is a lot calmer and that the GIANTS WIN, thanks for this post.

[maineysanjose]

5.2 my ass, try 7.1

san jose,ca

[Strazman]

I was 10 years old at the time....and not yet a baseball (Giants) fan. I was watching the classic Nickelodeon show "You Can't Do This on Television" when the quake hit.

[hellojulie]

"we do not know which bridge it is" haha ESPN has always been clueless about the west coast

[navygurl1990]

I remember this like it was yesterday. I still haven't gotten over it and literally freak out when we get little rumbles...

[hummlyhummly]

Nobody takes it easy, pal. I've been in all the major quakes since Sylmar, was at game 3 behind the dugout between home and first, it terrifies you, your heart thumps out of your chest. Northridge tops'em all, that one shook so bad, for so long, and the light show outside, OMG! I thought the world was coming to an end. Easy? No way. You just don't get that feeling like when you were a little kid, and you think a volcano is happening, I was 7 when Sylmar went off, that was a bad one.

[themonger42]

i never knew ESPN could give out a normal news report.......

[bduddy55555]

@themonger42 This was back when ESPN was a respectable channel, not just the sports wing of Disney...

[YungCityBoi415]

i was born this very fuckiin day at general hospital SF. a few hours before the quake went down. aint that some shitt haha

[CallieAlways2010]

it was at 5:04 pm.

[jonnyhc22]

Pretty difficult to determine the strength of the quake (or any) at the time. Bob Ley is solid, as another poster said; too bad his show is on while everybody is at work.

[PrUnEJuIcEtHeThIrD]

Bob Ley is a real reporter man. He doesn't just always go for gossip and sensationalism like so many ESPN people do now.

[FutureNewsAnchor]

What was up with the horse at 0:03?

[arellanon]

@FutureNewsAnchor

LOL!

[fearthehawksndcavs24]

@FutureNewsAnchor cop on horse probably

[gpciie]

@FutureNewsAnchor Maybe a San Francisco PD mounted officer?

[rayjr62]

@FutureNewsAnchor

S.F. Mounted P.D.. If memory serves me, they were riding their horses all over the Candlestick parking lot before games #3 and #4. 

[LDD86]

@FutureNewsAnchor

John Elway was there???

[mocus1]

@FutureNewsAnchor prolly a police horse nearby trying to get his 2 cents in

[huskyjerk]

@FutureNewsAnchor Police horse. Typically used by police in such crowds.

[jujumediazone]

@FutureNewsAnchor the horse sound you mean. I was looking for a horse but then I realized that I heard one.. lol

[jujumediazone]

a magnitude 5.2 quake. amazing how the information came in those days..

[planetcheck]

@FutureNewsAnchor That horse sound you hear is Mister Ed.

After he retired from his show, Mister Ed, he retired to the Bay Area.

He became a big fan of the A's and Giants.

He had dugout seats with the A's and Giants for the World Series.

You can hear him existing the stadium at 0:03

Hope that explains it.

[bukakee1]

Attention, all the peasents in the upper deck please leave.

[bobjoshjos]

my first Earthquake was like a low jet wow

[StevenShields29]

This guy must be from back east. It's laughable to have someone discuss a 5.2 when there was that much motion.

[FABriscoe]

When the quake hit I was sitting in SFO waiting for my flight back to Orange County after a day-long business meeting in downtown SF. Ceiling tiles started falling and people were screaming. About 5 minutes later there was an announcement that no more flights would be leaving SFO that evening. I went back to the rental car agency I used that day and my car had not been ckecked-in so I drove it home. It took me 14 hours to drive back to OC, 400 miles away. Usually an 8 hour drive.

[JaeDizzley1995]

DAMN !!! my mother was 18 years old when this earthquake happen just before my mother graduated from John Foster Dulles High School sometime on May 24-25, 1990.

[travdiddy84]

Is she hot?

[jpete3027666]

Bob Ley, great, objective reporter but he doesn't do the "BOOOHHH YAHHH" real well so he gets screwed. ESPN sucks now.

[jpete3027666]

Bob Ley, by far the best reporter ESPN has and they relegate him to outside the lines now. They put knuckleheads like Stuart Scott on their primetime sportscenter. They got rid of NFL primetime or at least the version with Berman and Jackson only and replaced it with Wengo and whoever else. These are the reasons I can't watch ESPN anymore.

[ChicagoIrishman]

@jpete3027666

Couldn't have said it better.

[LadyJay114]

@jpete3027666 You nailed it on the head!!!

[DangerousD1551]

wow...EARLY ESPN...Before they had the benefit of ABC news.

[recto89]

Yeh I noticed that they used KPIX instead of KGO's sources. Who Owned ESPN in 1989?

[rickyphoenix]

@recto89 ABC actually owned a majority of ESPN in 1989 but it was a much more separate network at the time.

It wasn't until 1996 when Disney bought ABC and the alliance started to become more noticeable...which led to the "ESPN on ABC" 10 years later.

[Brian211978]

Not that early ESPN...ESPN started in 1979.

[dcfog81]

Bob Ley

[krissycat25]

5.2??? weak! try a 7.0!!!

[bodtorent]

The aftershock!!

[Keeper1st]

It was a 6.9 to 7.1 depending on the measurement you look at (USGS officially calls it 6.9). The "5.2" preliminary he mentions is because he is in San Francisco, 80 miles from the epicenter.

[cris32sobalvarro]

@Keeper1st

it was a 7.1

[Keeper1st]

Initially it was declared that, but in the final analysis, it was recorded as 6.9.

[Virgostar285]

@Keeper1st It is officially recorded as a 7.1

[Keeper1st]

@Virgostar285 No it isn't. Look it up at the USGS.

[Virgostar285]

@Keeper1st that was the moment, surface wave was 7.1 and if was a 6.9 why do they mark it on the map as a 7.1?

[Keeper1st]

@Virgostar285 They don't. All their maps, animation, page devoted to the quake, and list of historic quakes list it as a 6.9. Their "M7.0+ Earthquakes in Each State" doesn't list this quake. I'm not coming up with this stuff off the top of my head; I'm LOOKING at it. Surface-wave magnitude is just one of many measurements used to determine the official magnitude of an earthquake. Other measurements for this quake ranged from 6.5 to 6.9. The "officially recorded" magnitude is 6.9.

[Virgostar285]

@Keeper1st Richter Magnitude of a 7.1

[Tornado1994]

It was 6.9. in Loma Prieta. Over in Marin county it was about 4.9.

[Keeper1st]

@Tornado1994 Exactly. The USGS web site has some very interesting "shakemaps". What I found most striking was how in the shakemap for the 1906 quake, which was centered at San Francisco, the Loma Prieta area's shaking was worse than it was in the Loma Prieta quake of 1989. It just shows how much bigger the '06 quake was. It's food for thought when people consider the amount of damage SF got in '89. Just imagine how bad it would have been if it had been a repeat of the '06 quake!