Rare police footage of San Francisco's Oct 17 1989 earthquake aftermath

The Loma Prieta earthquake, also known as the Quake of '89 and the World Series Earthquake, was a major earthquake that struck the San Francisco Bay Area of California on October 17, 1989, at 5:04 p.m. local time. Caused by a slip along the San Andreas Fault, the quake lasted 10--15 seconds and measured 6.9 on the moment magnitude scale (surface-wave magnitude 7.1) or 6.9 on the open ended Richter Scale. The quake killed 63 people throughout northern California, injured 3,757 and left some 3,000-12,000 people homeless.

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[MsPhipho91]

God bless America!

[picmanSF]

@MsNunuFNasty Same here i was born in 86. Still remember this i was in sf.

[MrJest2]

Wow... this is the first time I've ever seen an actual image of the Cyprus structure collapsing. I was always sure it existed somewhere, but this is - over 20 years later - that I've seen it on the interwebs. Wow...

[MsNunuFNasty]

I was 4yrs old wen dis happen in West Oakland Ca

[socalltd]

WOW! this is new footage of the cypress bridge.

[sofapapa]

After 22 years, this is the first time I saw a portion of the freeway fall. Very shocking.

[wonderbread06]

funny how they talk about a 23 year old woman trying to fly across the gap but that footage they show is actually the Fiji man who was directed to drive on the upper deck but I guess was unfamiliar with the bridge and drove into the hole

[wonderbread06]

I was only 2 years old when this happened but our apt complex in south city runs right on the fault line

[davyd510]

The next earthquake is tomorrow October 21 my God be with us all

[mima13100]

just by looking at this makes me cry