Deadly US Quakes
1989 World Series
Loma Prieta Stats
Effects of 89 Quake
Famous SF Sites
100
A magnitude 8.1 in Alaska triggered three tsunamis in what year?
What is 1946?
100
The World Series was postponed this many days due to the Loma Prieta earthquake.
What is twelve?
100
The Loma Prieta earthquake in San Francisco happened on this date.
What is October 17, 1989.
100
More than this many rockfalls and landslides occured during the Loma Prieta earthquake.
What is 1,000?
100
This San Francisco bridge was completed in 1937.
What is the Golden Gate Bridge?
200
The second largest earthquake ever recorded occured in Alaska in 1964 and was this magnitude.
What is 9.2?
200
This pitcher was the MVP of the 1989 World Series games.
Who is Dave Stewert?
200
The Loma Prieta earthquake lasted for this many seconds.
What is fifteen to tweny?
200
The Loma Prieta earthquake caused this highway to collapse.
What is the Cypress Viaduct?
200
This world famous chocolate company is based in San Francisco.
What is Ghiradelli?
300
An earthquake struck California in 1933, its magnitude was 6.3 and this many people died.
What is 115?
300
This A's pitcher had three homeruns in game three of the World Series.
Who is Dave Henderson?
300
The focal depth of the Loma Prieta earthquake was this many miles.
What is eleven miles?
300
The Loma Prieta earthquake caused this bridge to collapse.
What is the Bay Bridge?
300
This neighborhood was the home of San Francisco's hippie district in the 1960's.
What is Haight Asbury?
400
The estimated property damage in dollar figures, caused by the San Francisco earthquake of 1989, was this.
What is $6 billion
400
This World Series was known as the BART series because of this local transit authority.
What is Bay Area Rapid Transit?
400
Sources place the death toll caused by the Loma Prieta earthquake to be this.
What is 63-68 people?
400
This process makes existing structures earthquake-proof.
What is retrofitting?
400
In 1989, the San Francisco Giants Called this their home ballpark .
What is Candlestick Park?
500
An earthquake in this country left two million people homeless in the year of 1960.
What is Chile?
500
This A's player wrote a book that exposed Major League Baseball's steroid issues.
Who is Jose Conseco?
500
The Richter Scale magnitude of the Loma Prieta earthquake was this.
What is 7.1?
500
State Highway 17 was closed due to the Loma Prieta earthquake for this amount of time.
What is one month?
500
This island prison closed in 1963.
What is Alcatraz?
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