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San Francisco earthquake of 1989 damaged the transportation

United States
Oakland earthquake (also known as the Loma Prieta
earthquake). The quake struck with a moment
magnitude of 6.9 on October 17, just before the start
of the third game of the World Series, which was
being held at San Francisco's Candlestick Park. Sixty-
three people died, and nearly 3,800 were injured.
The baseball championship between the San
Francisco Giants and the Oakland Athletics was
suspended for 10 days, because both cities suffered
significant damage.
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system of the Bay Area. The
collapse of the Cypress Street
Viaduct (Nimitz Freeway)
caused most of the
earthquake-related deaths.
The San Francisco–Oakland
Bay Bridge was also damaged
when a span of the top deck
collapsed. In the aftermath, all
bridges in the area underwent
seismic retrofitting to make
them more resistant to Remarkably, the earthquake struck just
earthquakes. before the start of the third game of
the 1989 World Series, which was to
be played in San Francisco’s
Candlestick Park between the two Bay
Area baseball teams, the San Francisco
Giants and the Oakland Athletics. The
disaster’s occurrence during a major
live television broadcast meant that
news of the earthquake, as well as
aerial views provided by the Goodyear
blimp, reached a large audience. The
baseball championship, which was
suspended for 10 days, would come to
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