California Earthquake of 1989 (Loma Prieta)

[MrLilboy67]

thats my teacher today she showed me that vid and im like omfg and ya

no lie

[Ryanyarb24]

i was in a movie theatre when it struck i was 5 years i was almost trampled to death

[WrightStuffOnTheWeb]

Avery Brooks! :o

[anonanon556]

duck cover and hold my ass that teacher booked it

[hellstotheyesbaby]

I remember when this was happening. I was outside doing construction on my uncles property. We were like deer in headlights. "Um, I think we're having an earthquake."

[zombiecancer888]

lol at 0:30 the windows are bass woofers

[2550505]

That baby got ran over by a car at 0:46 !!!

[denvercolorado2010]

@2550505 LOL!

[HCNguyen86]

idiots! Stop, drop and roll!!

[ProvinUWrong]

People need to do like Lex Luthor and buy up Arizona property cheap. It's gonna be beach front property some day soon, based on current events!

[DrSurprise]

all the buildings in SF are built to withstand earthquakes so there wasn't too much damage

[pbrew85]

Duck and cover.

[TheAwakenedHeretic]

I was 3 and a half years old yet I remember this. I was attempting to play Mario One and my entire home in Gilroy CA began to shake violently, my mom grabbed my brother and I and ran outside and we saw the foundation beneath out house shake away due to liquefaction revealing the wooden plants which out home was built upon.

BTW I am in Tokyo Japan now.. Not very lucky Earthquake-wise...

[MultiLanceC]

I was 12 when this quake hit... I lived in Hayward and was at home with my dad on a second story apartment. I remember we stood underneath the doorway for what felt like 10 minutes while the building shook violently and rolled, but was only a few seconds. I will never forget this day for as long as I live. I still miss home though, earthquakes and all. RIP to all who lost their lives that day.

[hlslayer123]

I think it's funny how the teacher just says "screw you guys, im outta here!"

[trinityct]

This must've been terrifying for a lot of people.

[JESSESEIBEL]

Smart baby.

[Valicore]

I think it's funny that the teacher was the only one to duck and cover. Although with those crappy student desks there isn't anything to duck and cover under. 

[liwkenne]

It's always a good idea to panic and stampede to the nearest door during an earthquake. Nice work, everyone.

[andrew49848]

julie car can you read this at work. yea.

[andrew49848]

got the master of a disco scratch. yea.

[docshuck]

GET THAT BABY SOME HELP!!! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA I'VE NEVER LAUGHED SO FUCKING HARD IN MY LIFE!!!!

[js182010]

Damn the way the lights swing and go out at 0:28 is a trip

you could even see how the earthquake moves the building .............

crazy stuff

[TheInfected114]

Wow, it happens at a college but never during regular school???? Fuck U Earthquakes!!!!!! You need to happen during regular school!!!!!!!!

[LoopInc]

so much for the school earthquake protocol.

Who would run over the baby with a car?

[SouthOCmixdown]

Nice editing at the end, when hes rounding the bases with the announcers. Very eerie and disturbing.

[UnderStoryProd]

@SouthOCmixdown That's not editing at the end. That's the actual World Series pre game build up as it was interrupted on live TV. Which to me makes it even more erie and disturbing.

[snopbox]

@SouthOCmixdown ....totally. I would be scared spitless If I was watching that game and suddenly the TV went out like that with the announcers saying "we're having an earthquake!".....and it's a trip seeing the old TV technology now....no digital back then, only analog with the "snow screen" haha

[Intedra0]

nchaaaaaaaa THE BES EARTHQUAKE EVAR IS VALPARAISO CHILE 9.5 motherfucker

[THE0103]

Wow, I was 2 yrs. old in Santa Cruz during this quake..

[darkwing1904]

haha... that baby was trying to crawl under a toy car

[PimpMatt0]

lol 80s

[MrBubbs62]

That was sad but the chino hills earthquake (M5.5) gave us a pretty good shake but there was no damage.

[bwood2014]

thts sad

[OceanPoet]

Gosh that class scene was freaky. It just starts shaking, going black with light shades dropping everywhere.

[Sindollx666x]

I remember the floor looked like it was rolling and there were lots of crashing and breaking sounds in our house. It felt like a train hit our house. My mom kept me home from school for a week. It was very scary when you're only 8 almost 9 years old. Mom got a concussion from our kitchen table trying to protect me, my brother, and a daycare kid I was holding who was crying. I can't believe that was 21 years ago.

[vgames89]

wow that scene in the gym with the shaking lights was freaky

[rumpjohan]

thats kool that there was so many cameras during the earthquake, look up the earthquake of haiti ther arent so many thats for sure

[Johnsteen101]

i wasn't born yet but my mom said things were flying out of cabinets and lights were swinging.

[xSilverUnicorn]

I had the exact same experience in this quake! I tried to duck under a table, but it slid out from over me. I couldn't stay under the table, because it kept sliding around.

[wildcards420]

When that one hit, the house I was living in was made of redwood so there was not much damage, but my dads '56 chevy walked itself backward down the driveway, into the street, and totalled a cheap ass toyota! At that time I was so used to quakes that it didn't seem like that powerful of a quake.

[silgneb]

no homework tonight

[Dook6]

I remember this Clip it was a TLC Special called 1989 San Francisco Quake. Back in the 1990's TLC did documentaries that resemble the Travel Channel, History, and National Geographic. Now TLC is like MTV, MTV2, E, VH1, and A&E nothing but reality Shows.

[princesssakura196]

i agree, becuz if the roof or anything collapses on a tiny desk, that desk isnt going to be able to hold it up & protect u. especially if things begin sliding.

[OriginalNeckman]

I wish I knew which school gymnasium that was @ 0:24. It looks EXACTLY like my high school's gym, Aptos High. And that would make sense as the epicenter was very close to Aptos.

[iti4lyf1]

20 years ago today

[WildBill6942]

WTF at the 45 second mark??? LOL

[mikechorizo]

lmao.. that part never gets old

[TonyEtna1987]

Spaventoso.

[Dook6]

I ducked under a Toy Chest when I was 3 years old in South San Francisco when this happend.

[Tornado1994]

Ironically on Friday the 13th, our school in Novato had held an earthquake drill. Then on Tuesday, it hit. I can still remember my stepdad telling me to stand still and not move. The house shook for 10 seconds while my baby brother then 14 months old was being held by my stepdad. My mom had gone to Safeway, and took a whole hour to get back.

[Rawrx310]

@princesssakura196

ahaha yeah

[Tornado1994]

@princesssakura196 Why? Panic is what kills people.

[princesssakura196]

@Tornado1994 i didnt say thats wat ppl should do, i meant thats wat theyre guna do. its like a human instinct to flee a natural disaster XD

[dubmywub]

@princesssakura196 true

but then being outside is the safest thing you can do in an earthquake kos theres nothing to fall on you :D

[baiba4]

@princesssakura196 i was at my school camp when a 6.4 i think aftershock striked a few weeks ago and eveybody just ditch going into a turtle where they were and just ran outside in circles lol im in christchurch new zealand we have had a 7.1 and a 6.4

[denvercolorado2010]

@princesssakura196 in colorado we only get fire drills and those are awesome cause you take time out of math class

[delxart]

@princesssakura196 Well hell yeah, i would haul ass out of there too... the desk wont protect you if the building collapses haha

[zyphoid666]

The voice-over... Is that the guy from Star Trek : Deep Space 9/ American History X?

[bklimt]

Yes, it is Avery Brooks. This is an episode of Nova from 1992. I think.

[zyphoid666]

Sweet they should get him to do more voice-over work, he's got the deep voice with serious tone that's made for documentaries (like Keith David and Morgan Freeman who've narrated many docs).

[MrDavidFulero]

@zyphoid666 yeah thats totally avery brooks :D

[zyphoid666]

@MrDavidFulero

Awesome :) They should get him to do voice-over work for more documentaries.

[Mercury973]

I was a junior in high school and was at the Lucky store on Soquel when it struck. I'll never forget this

[TheRemixer05]

lol this happend on my birthday

[piratejoey]

I was 3, and this is actually my earliest memory. I was in Santa Cruz on the beach when this happened. I remember it all pretty vividly. Ha, guess that's what you call a flashbulb memory.

[nahish2001]

I was 3 and it's my earliest memory too! I was in Oakland helping my mom cook dinner when the cabinets emptied themselves. Pretty crazy but I've come to appreciate earthquakes since then, like a 4.0 last year I rather enjoyed (I was on a rickety bed on the 3rd floor of a skinny condo and I'd had a few drinks so it felt shakier I'm sure than it actually was).

[camiecarnivore]

I know this sounds crazy , but I'd love to experience an earthquake one day ...

we don't have earthquakes in belgium ( and if we have , it's just like if there was a really heavy truck passing by...so you don't feel it.)

[narutofanatic94]

No, no you don't. They are the scariest things in the world... The spontaneity of it is just so frickin' scary. I was so paranoid from just a 4.9 near my house and I couldn't sleep well for 2 weeks. Took me nearly 3 months to stop being paranoid of earthquakes.

[HomerandStrongBad]

I hope the baby at 0:47 was okay.

[A2theO2010]

I remember this earthquake I was about 12 and I will never forget how strong the shaking was it was just horrible.

[TDK939]

i remember feeling that earthquake in long beach

[Princegto]

Oh my God !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[JPMatheu]

That gives me chills. I remember walking back into my parent's house less than a 1/2 mile from the San Andreas Fault Line and looking at the 20ft chimney with cracks in it. The SF Bay Area is really, really nerve racking in anything over a 5.

[gucecity]

WHEN THE BAY SHAKES - IT SHAKES!

[iluvhighfives]

my teacher was in a chandelier store when this happened, lol! but, i wasn't born yet, so yeah...

wtf, why didn't the students hide under their desks. only some of them did, and the others started running out! lol, i probably would've done the same :P

[carrob65]

Because--- when an earthquake happens---esp one as jolting and loud as Loma Prieta ---your first instinct is to run. Shit, I was at home and ran into the street. I do not care how "earthquake proof" they said my house was. I just kept thinking of all those pictures I had seen of other earthquakes where people are buried under buildings. That is enough to get your ass moving out that door. People died running from buildings when shit fell in top of them, though. Guess you can die either way :-(

[Tornado1994]

Well, panicking kills people in earthquakes. California has tremors all the time, but they know not to panic. also, California get's hit by a major earthquake 6.0-7.0 only once every decade. A massive jolt 7.5 or higher hasn't hit the state in over 100 years since 1906, Idiots have been prediciting the BIG one for years, and it has yet to happen. Guess they don't know what the hell they are talking about huh?

[SepherStar]

@Tornado1994 Well there's a few reasons why people might not panic in California.

1. Culture. Some cultures are more push and shove than others.

2. Building codes: California has strict building codes and everyone knows it. Whereas other places have no building codes...and everyone knows it.

3. Opportunity: Landers and Northridge were in the early morning when most people were still at home. If it were Home Depot on a Saturday afternoon, people would probably panic.

[Chubachus]

cool. iveonly experienced one really small quake in my life

[edwardjackson04]

I have experienced wimpy earthquakes, not enough to scare me, and I'm 13 going on 14 in March 11

[erikaemergency]

Haha, this was 5 years before I was born. My mom had just moved to the states from Korea and lived in West Alameda. She was going for a walk and then the earthquake happened. She was so scared that she fell and scraped her knee on the pavement. She said it was very very scary.

[CelticDragon0]

Yikes.

[camilogalactico]

SCARY...=S

[Rioru202]

haha the baby

[Panchitolionman]

:45 "I was driving my car when boom next thing I know I'm under my Car crying my ass off" ACTUAL QUOTE FROM THE BABY

[poptart66733]

that was scary when the game was cut of

[sunshine6565]

Who's nararating? Is this from a National Geographic Video or something? Where is this from?

[FairBolFL]

Sounds like Morgan Freeman.

[angryniggah]

not morgan freeman, but yet another big black basso-profundo by the name of avery brooks. nerds may know him by the name of capt'n. sisko from deep space nine.

[yucchhiiowwee]

And your comment is rellevent to....what? Does this have ANYTHING to do with the EARTHQUAKE of 1989 in the BAY AREA?

[liltrippychild]

OMG i thought that voice familiar. i am a nerd and i admit it. scary stuff i was five when this happened scary scary scary

[TheJabHattEnt]

This could be from anywhere. There are many movies and documentaries that use these same clips, they are the most revealing of the earthquake. All the rest are just aftermaths.

[carrob65]

that was a high school in Santa Cruz where the volleyball game was taking place!

[amoebaman78]

Was it a high school in Santa Cruz? It looked like the gym at Burlingame High School.

[yeismeload]

Lol I lived in Tokyo for 2 years...a 6.6? Bring it on, we used to get 7s or 8s monthly (scary as all hell, watching skyscrapers wobble around).

[ProgHead777]

No, you didn't. Only about 15 7.0+ earthquakes occur every year world wide. The last time an 8 hit Tokyo was 1923 and it killed over 140,000 people. But you can't judge the danger of a quake by its magnitude alone. The 1995 Kobe earthquake was "only" a 6.8 and it killed 6,000+.

[Rubenaxo000]

no 6.8 that was a 7.2 (kobe),the epicenter was located at 15 km at kobe in the sea

[Tornado1994]

It depends on the building codes. Back in early '95 there were parts of Japan that still had poor pre WWII building codes. The reason why so many people died in the Kobe jishin(earthquake) is because all of the high rise buildings collapsed. Since then Japan has had strong quakes back to back in 2001,2004 and 2007. But only a small handfull of people have died. In the 2007 Kyoto quake only 1 person died.

[quiktymevideo]

My family and I didn't live too far from the epicenter when the earthquake hit. I was only six years old when this happened, but I remember it very well. I have never been more scared in my entire life.

[cajayson8301]

I went to UC Santa Cruz and know which classroom that was! :)

[snopbox]

@cajayson8301 wow, that would be a trip....seeing it under the influence of an earthquake years earlier (or later)

[cajayson8301]

@snopbox We came to the 21st anniversary this week and yet it still feels like yesterday when the quake struck the Bay Area. Time flies! I can say having been a Californian all my life that this is the only major earthquake I've experienced.

[curtainswoods]

It was kind of cute to see the baby take cover under the toy car....as if the baby knew what to do!

[dahawkfan17]

Ah the chalkboards in the classroom at the beginning definitely remind me of the days of the past.

[impemt]

1989 was a great year

[darksideofchris]

my friends dad used to live there he recorded the earthquake and i saw it scary...

he was watchin the game then he felt shaking and the game cut off

[impemt]

Someone remembers Full House episode about the earthquake? lol

[tam6231990]

i remember that XD i knew that was the quake they were talkin about.

[9pluto]

how big was the earthquake

[birdrack]

It had a moment magnitude of 6.9 and a surface wave magnitude of 7.1. The duration was 15 to 20 seconds.

[GeminiChile]

@birdrack In my country (Chile) the last earthwauke was a 8.8 magnitude :( , and the duration was 2 minutes.

The scariest experience ever!

[Nicholas197813]

@birdrack IT WAS A 7.7 EARTHQUAKE

[itswatevafools]

i was only a month old, my dad was out joggin, my moms was taking care of me in our apartement. my dad came back right after. they told me the whole day i had been quiet, until 1 minute before the it hit.

[FallenAng3l420]

I was 3 when that happend I was

living in the Bay Area and it was

a very scary thing:( I'm glad me

and my family were okay though!

[small5th]

i remember sitting on the couch watching TV when that earthquake hit...suddenly i was thrown onto the ground and couldn't stand. that was one of the scariest moments of my life. i remember watching our candelier in the living room swinging so dangerously....and thinking it was gonna break off

[wittgenstein82]

my dad and my dog died that day. RIP

[zackam1306]

my mom and dad were at that world series game

[enigma99a]

I remember watching the world series when it went off the air. Seems like yesterday

[KinnariKreme]

me too; i was worried about my relatives in the bay area!

they were ok but it was astonishing to watch it live!

[DominusAdest]

I slept on the living room floor next to the front door for two weeks after the quake. I highly recommend lying down in the street during a quake so you can watch all your neighbor's houses roll up and down.

[Darkzerox066]

omg id be scared as hell