USGS Multimedia Gallery for Set: 1989 Loma Prieta, California Earthquake

http://gallery.usgs.gov/images/logos/usgs_only.jpg USGS Multimedia Gallery for Set: 1989 Loma Prieta, California Earthquake http://gallery.usgs.gov/ en-us OC_Web@usgs.gov (Office of Communications Web Group) http://gallery.usgs.gov/images/USGS.gif USGS http://gallery.usgs.gov/ <![CDATA[Cars crushed by collapsing brick facade near Fifth and Townsend Streets. At this locality, five people were killed while leaving from work.]]> http://gallery.usgs.gov/photos/mQHs38Vjj1_0 <![CDATA[Crushed car near the intersection of Fifth and Townsend Streets, South of Market.]]> http://gallery.usgs.gov/photos/mQHs38Vjj1_1 <![CDATA[Aerial view of collapsed buildings and burned-out section at Beach and Divisadero Streets, Marina District.]]> http://gallery.usgs.gov/photos/mQHs38Vjj1_2 <![CDATA[Demolition of collapsed building and watering down of burned area, October 18, 1989, Beach and Divisadero Streets, Marina District.]]> http://gallery.usgs.gov/photos/mQHs38Vjj1_3 <![CDATA[Ground view of collapsed building and burned area, Beach and Divisadero Streets, Marina District.]]> http://gallery.usgs.gov/photos/mQHs38Vjj1_4 <![CDATA[Absence of adequate shear walls on the garage level exacerbated damage to this structure at the corner of Beach and Divisadero Streets, Marina District.]]> http://gallery.usgs.gov/photos/mQHs38Vjj1_5 <![CDATA[Entrance and garage level of a Beach Street apartment complex in danger of collapse, Marina District.]]> http://gallery.usgs.gov/photos/mQHs38Vjj1_6 <![CDATA[An automobile lies crushed under the third story of this apartment building in the Marina District. The ground levels are no longer visible because of structural failure and sinking due to liquefaction.]]> http://gallery.usgs.gov/photos/mQHs38Vjj1_7 <![CDATA[Collapsed brickwork from a corner apartment building, Marina District.]]> http://gallery.usgs.gov/photos/mQHs38Vjj1_8 <![CDATA[Smoldering remains of the apartment complex at the corner of Beach and Divisadero Streets, the Marina District.]]> http://gallery.usgs.gov/photos/mQHs38Vjj1_9 <![CDATA[A search-and-rescue team in the Marina District wait for a building to be buttressed before entering the structure.]]> http://gallery.usgs.gov/photos/mQHs38Vjj1_10 <![CDATA[Tom Brokaw of NBC News prepares script for a live broadcast from the Marina District.]]> http://gallery.usgs.gov/photos/mQHs38Vjj1_11 <![CDATA[Electric wires being removed from unstable towers by city utility workers. Arresting sparks from broken wires was a priority in those areas with broken gas mains.]]> http://gallery.usgs.gov/photos/mQHs38Vjj1_12 <![CDATA[Aerial view of roadbed collapse near the interface of the cantilever and truss sections of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge. View northwestward.]]> http://gallery.usgs.gov/photos/mQHs38Vjj1_13 <![CDATA[Aerial view of the collapsed section of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge. View westward.]]> http://gallery.usgs.gov/photos/mQHs38Vjj1_14 <![CDATA["Sand boil" or sand volcano measuring 2 m (6.6 ft) in length erupted in median of Interstate Highway 80 west of the Bay Bridge toll plaza when ground shaking transformed loose water-saturated deposit of subsurface sand into a sand-water slurry (liquefaction). Vented sand contains-marine shell fragments.]]> http://gallery.usgs.gov/photos/mQHs38Vjj1_15 <![CDATA[Aerial view of collapsed sections of the Cypress viaduct of Interstate Highway 880.]]> http://gallery.usgs.gov/photos/mQHs38Vjj1_16 <![CDATA[Aerial view of collapsed sections of the Cypress viaduct of Interstate Highway 880.]]> http://gallery.usgs.gov/photos/mQHs38Vjj1_17 <![CDATA[Reinforcement bars exposed at the base of the Cypress viaduct near 14th Street.]]> http://gallery.usgs.gov/photos/mQHs38Vjj1_18 <![CDATA[Remnant portion of the north- and south-bound Cypress viaduct exposing box girders near 14th Street.]]> http://gallery.usgs.gov/photos/mQHs38Vjj1_19 <![CDATA[Side view of support-column failure and collapsed upper deck, Cypress viaduct.]]> http://gallery.usgs.gov/photos/mQHs38Vjj1_20 <![CDATA[Support-column failure and collapsed upper deck, Cypress viaduct.]]> http://gallery.usgs.gov/photos/mQHs38Vjj1_21 <![CDATA[Bent reinforcement bars in failed support column, Cypress viaduct.]]> http://gallery.usgs.gov/photos/mQHs38Vjj1_22 <![CDATA[Closeup of damaged reinforcement bars from a Cypress viaduct support column.]]> http://gallery.usgs.gov/photos/mQHs38Vjj1_23 <![CDATA[Pancaked upper deck, Cypress viaduct. Guard rail at right is on lower deck.]]> http://gallery.usgs.gov/photos/mQHs38Vjj1_24