Skip to main content
U.S. flag

An official website of the United States government

1989 Loma Prieta

By Earthquake Hazards Program
Damaged Building Damaged Buildings Unsafe to Occupy Signs Tom Brokaw Prepares Script Searching for Victims Searching for Victims Rescue Efforts Geologist with Rescue Personnel Messages at Emergency Center Search-and-Rescue Team Crack Down Front of Store Storefront Damage Damaged Lane Separators Structural Damage Structural Failure of Bridges Structural Failure of House Dislodged House Dislodged House House Torn Off Foundation House Moved Off Foundation Buttressed Foundation Bedroom Differential Settlement Ground Cracking and Differential Settlement Bicycles Crushed by Brick Cars Crushed by Brick Car Crushed by Brick Failure of Unreinforced Brick Collapsed Brick Collapsed Brickwork Car Crushed Under Building Crushed Car Remains of Apartment Complex Apartment in Danger of Collapse Clock Tower Destroyed Causeway Destroyed House Failure of Porch Fructure Cuts Roadbed Support Column of Bridge Support Columns of Highway Surface Rupture Across Highway Failure of Joist/Columns Interface Collapsed sections of Cypress viaduct, Highway 880 Collapsed Bridge Section Deformed Retaining Walls Watering Down of Burned Area 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake generated thousands of landslides Collapsed Wall Collapsed Outer Wall Collapsed Building Collapsed Porch Collapsed Garage Aerial View of Collapsed Tower Aerial View of Collapsed Tower Aerial View of Collapsed Section Aerial View of Collapsed Buildings Aerial View of Slide Aerial View of Large Slides Aerial View of Highway Aerial View of Highway Aerial View of Roadbed Collapse Electric Wires Being Removed Broken Utility Lines "Sand Boil" on Bay Bridge Liquefaction in Subsurface Layer of Sand Loma Prieta Liquefaction Vent of Sand Volcano Roadcut near Summit Road Landslide Debris on Highway Landslide Debris on Highway Landslide-Displaced Trees Broken Concrete Divider Extensional Cracks in Spillway Extensional Crack Surface Cracks Crack System Destroys Driveway Vertical Displacement Across Tennis Court Buckled Sidewalk Lateral Compression Radio Transmission Towers Radio Transmission Towers Head Scarp of Small Slide Landslide North of Fort Funston Cliff Failure North of Tunitas Creek Cliff Failure Cypress Viaduct Cypress Viaduct Cypress Viaduct Cypress Viaduct Reinforcement Bars of Cypress Viaduct Reinforcement Bars of Cypress Viaduct Reinforcement Bars of Cypress Viaduct Demolition of Cypress Structure Pancaked Upper Deck of Cypress viaduct Sheared Reinforcement Bar Scattered Books in Bookstore Ceramics Shop Dislodged Books and Duct Unfastened Bookcases Residents Camped in Yards Seismographs at the U.S. Geological Survey Marina District, San Francisco, after the 1989 Loma Prieta Earthquake

Detailed Description

Photos related to the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake.

Sources/Usage

Public Domain.

Related

Loma Prieta Earthquake 35th Anniversary Compilation

Loma Prieta Earthquake 35th Anniversary Compilation

On October 17, 1989, at 5:04 PM, a 6.9 magnitude earthquake hit near Loma Prieta, CA., shaking the San Francisco and Monterey Bay regions. The...

Read Article

Related

Loma Prieta Earthquake 35th Anniversary Compilation

Loma Prieta Earthquake 35th Anniversary Compilation

On October 17, 1989, at 5:04 PM, a 6.9 magnitude earthquake hit near Loma Prieta, CA., shaking the San Francisco and Monterey Bay regions. The...

Read Article
Was this page helpful?