Gotta love Al Michaels..... He walked us through The Miracle On Ice Hockey game when the US beat the Soviet Union and he was with us the night this earthquake "shook up" the World Series. His voice is forever locked in these two memorable moments of time. Take care and be well, everyone. Peace.
The guy who called the commissioner to complain about him not wearing a tie was George Steinbrenner, the owner of the New York Yankees. Yes, he was a real ass, and had a strict dress code for the Yankees, including no facial hair allowed.
Love your channel, Kabir! I'm born and raised in the Bay Area of California. Me, my wife and kids were living in Menlo Park at the time. Been through a lot of earthquakes throughout my life. But we all remember exactly where we were when the '89 quake hit. We were without power and utilities for a while, but we were safe. Sadly, it was a devastating event for many especially regarding those who lost family and friends at the Cypress Structure collapse. It still crosses my mind every Oct. 17. Take care and keep up the good work!
The fact that 50,000 people were in the stadium, it may have saved thousands of lives. BTW, one of the teams: The Oakland A's are playing their final home today. They're moving next year. Plan is to play the next 3 years in Sacremento at a temporary stadium then move to Las Vegas. The story I heard as far as the TV coverage of the world series goes: since Oakland and San Francisco are so close both stadium were essentially down as were transmission lines in both cities, so the commissioner granted a 10 day postponement. One of the mayors asked for more time only for the commissioner to say no. The backup plan if neither city would be ready was to play the rest of the series in New York at Yankee stadium. The league had them on "standby" in case. It's actually quite impressive they got things back up and running so quickly.
Yea. Can you imagine if the quake hit earlier or after the game when the masses are still in transit to or going home from the stadium stuck in traffic. The potential of an even bigger tragedy is crazy to think about.
There was talk of completing the World Series somewhere else, and even cancelling the thing entirely. The Series was resumed at Candlestick Park on October 27, 10 days after the quake. This really lifted the morale of the people living in the Bay Area. Candlestick park was reinforced to better withstand earthquakes only a couple of years before the Loma Prieta quake. It would have been a lot worse if this work hadn't been done. The quake was eventually determined to be 6.9 on the Richter scale, not 6.5 as was reported in this video. And, yes, George Steinbrenner was a jackass.
Hi Kabir. I've lived in California for most of my life. I was actually born in San Francisco. I've experienced many earthquakes. The ground doesn't really shake; it kinda rolls. It's a weird sensation almost like being in a little boat. The most important thing to do in a quake is not to panic. Keep your head about you and you'll most likely come through it. They don't typically last that long. I hope this helped.
The fact that the world series was going on probably saved a ton of people. Lots of people were in the stadium and at home watching the game meant that not a lot of people were out and about
Tuesday, October 17, 1989 - 5:04pm. I was 16, a junior in high school in Santa Clara. We did not have school the day after the quake. When we went back on Thursday, every clock in the school was stopped at 5:04:37. These were analog clocks with the red second hand. It was the most eerie thing ever.
I was living in San Fransisco at the time. Even though I was just a young child, I still remember this event like it was yesterday. Nothing has ever dropped me to the ground faster than this quake. It was almost as if my legs turned to jelly.
Was watching this at work 200 miles away in Fresno, California. We felt the quake slightly. The fans & sports reporters made light of it, initially, but many people were killed in the collapse of that 880 double-decked highway in the city of Oakland. Very sad. Yes, being in a quake, you are very vulnerable.
I lived 90 miles from San Francisco in the Sacramento valley when that earthquake hit, bridges collapsed, freeways collapsed, lots of buildings collapsed, it took 14 years to get all the bridges and freeways full repaired. I felt the earthquake in my house, there was no damage in the house, but when I went out to the detached garage - there was a 4 inch wide crack in the concrete floor!
I teach geology to college freshman. I use this earthquake as a good example of how seismic waves propagate through different materials. When seismic waves propagate through loose, unconsolidated sediment, as opposed to solid rock, ground motion is amplified. The ground bounces more. After the 1906 EQ a large amount of rubble was dumped into the bay. It was eventually built on. It's known as the Marina District and contains high dollar homes. It bounced hard. I describe it as echos of the 1906 EQ
I was 5. We lived 13 miles from the epicenter. You heard it coming then it didn’t exactly shake it was waves. My mom couldn’t stand up. She skinned her knee grabbing my brother. This game saved so many people because everyone was home watching the game. We only lost a lightbulb but school was our for a few days because they had to check for damage.
The one man described it best: That sound ! I thought one of the military planes was falling on the roof. Being in a military building with solid fire doors and steel frames left a picture in my head until today. The doors were swinging und the frames rattled towards the void in the middle. I tried to get down the hallway but it came in waves towards me. It was a shaker and roller simultanously !
Today September 26th is the last game to be played in the Oakland Alameda Coliseum and I am very sad, A's and Raiders won championships there, Warriors won Championships across the parking lot and now it's all going to be gone forever.
Most earthquakes damage are from fires not shaking. I only wished you also saw how ppl came together to help their communities knowing emergency services was stretched too thin.
My Great Uncle Pete was in the 1906 quake, in the hospital because he'd just had his legs amputated in a railroad accident. Hospital collapsed, but he was able to crawl out thank goodness.
The fact that the game was at rush hour saved thousands of lives. Most people were at the game or at home. I felt this earthquake in my home in Sacramento, roughly 90ish miles away.
George Steinbrenner was the owner of the NY Yankee's, he was always about appearance. He didn't allow his players to have facial hair, because it was unbecoming.
We were still living in California (Huntington Beach) at that time and I remember this. I hated earthquakes, especially the uncertainty of how long they would last. Prior to meeting my husband, I was a surgical tech in the Navy. We had a patient who had his surgery (elective) cancelled multiple times. As we were prepping him for surgery one morning, he joked that the only way his surgery would be cancelled this time would be by an act of God. Within minutes, an earthquake hit and we had to evacuate. (Never tempt God)! I was the on-board duty person that night and had to stay in the OR by myself. I kept focusing on the crack in the ceiling caused by the quake. I hated quakes. I was married when the Northridge earthquake hit and my husband slept through it. I was standing in the doorway, shouting for him to wake up and get in the doorway. He raised his head, commented on the quake, and then went back to sleep. I was glad to move out of California, stating it would be nice not have to deal with earthquakes anymore (not the reason we moved). Shortly after moving to Montana, I found out that Montana also has many fault lines. Luckily, in the 27 years we have lived here, we have only experienced a handful of earthquakes, and they were more like aftershocks compared to the ones we experienced in California. At any rate, i cannot begin to imagine how scary it would have been to be in that stadium, especially the upper decks, during that quake.
Yes! I felt it too and I was in SoCal in Ventura over 300 miles away. I had just sat down to watch the game after work when I felt a huge bump and I heard Al Michael say, " We're having an earth....."and the picture went dead. Our LA news came on and started following the signal as they could locate it. There it was and it was horrible. The thing that got me was the three story Victorian homes and apartments that became two story in an instant. The double decker freeway that collapsed top on bottom, crushing anything on the lower level. Who would build a double decker freeway in San Francisco with its fault history? Foolishness! Stupidity! People died because of it.
The most valuable souvenir from that World Series is anything that said Battle of the Bay because after the earthquake it was called the Earthquake series
I was in the hospital half an hour to San Francisco when it hit. I had a bad stroke and brain surgery the month earlier. I was 24 years old. Thank goodness my husband was there and he covered me with his body. It was crazy! I looked at the windows and they were moving violently-well I was scared. I didn’t in my life had an earthquake and I couldn’t move to boot. But I was not crying like my roommate. She begged for a Valium.😮
Kabir, George Steinbrenner wasn’t the mayor of San Francisco, he owned the New York Yankees and was one of the most powerful owners in the Major League Baseball. Of course being in New York he had never been in an earthquake and also from what I heard was a real a$$. I was watching the game up in the Seattle area, especially because I had lived on the Oakland side in Danville and one of my sisters lived near Lake Merritt and worked in Oakland. I was concerned and then horrified when I saw the levels of the Nimitz Freeway had pancaked down on top of each other…my sister commuted on that and would have left work at 5:00 and would have been on the road when the earthquake struck. Fortunately my sister noticed no one had cleaned the coffee maker so she stop to clean it, that probably saved her life. Fun fact…we had a minor earthquake here this morning but I slept through it.
I called my parents from a Denny's restaurant pay phone, and my dad told me about the quake. I spent the next four hours at the Armed Services YMCA, watching it on the news.
Normally earthquakes shake through here very briefly. It started out pretty small then just kept getting stronger and stronger. Also, nobody saw any of this television coverage locally. The electrical system immediately failed and it took a bit over twelve hours for it to come back at my house. I remember looking at the skies that night and seeing stars like living out in the country because the entire Bay Area was completely dark. No light pollution to block the stars.
A friend of mine lived in SF at this time. Cheryl said she had just gotten on that bridge when the quake hit. She remembered seeing a car in front of her disappear before her eyes . She said they ( she and her toddler daughter) were lucky they were on the upper deck. Most of the deaths happened when the upper deck collapsed down onto the lower one. When they finally got home they found some trees down but that was about all.
I lived 2-1/2 hours south of San Francisco and we felt it all the way down there. It sounded like tanks were driving to the house. It did side to side shaking and then up and down. Felt like we were on a rollercoaster. Really heavy shaking, no power for several days,...no school either 😆
My wife grew up in a town in the Mojave Desert that in 2019 they had 80,000 earthquakes between July 4th to July 25th when the article was written in the Los Angeles Times
@@robtintelnot9107 I grew up in NorCal that has earthquakes nearly every day as well. The county has a dormant volcano and had the world’s largest geothermal energy plant
In 1906 an Enormous quake hit San Francisco. It changed the development of the west, really the way the modern US formed. It is always in the mind of the citizens of San Francisco. Because of TV coverage we had a lot of coverage of this, something that many places in the world wouldn't get until the last decade or so. The highway collapse was horrific because of fire. Also Kabir you missed the famous clip of the car that, long after the quake, decided to drive off the bridge.
Oooooh I remember this well. My first daughter was a year old and we were watching on TV when we watched people panicking when it hit. We were only watching on TV across the country and we were scared for those there. I cant imagine the terror of those I'm the middle of it.
I was 3 when this happened, this earthquake was my first real memory. Oakland will miss the A’s 😢 I just went to one of their last games and I’m still sad about them leaving.
There are many types of earthquakes. Some are bouncy types rolling ones & shaking back and forth. Some are mild, some will throw you out of your recliner or chair. One shopping center several stories high are built on roller foundations. One time I was vacuuming the hall way of our home and I got nauseated my reaction was I must be getting a flu. Another time I watched the chandelier, swaying back-and-forth and one time the front window was rattling. 😅
George Steinbrenner was the owner of the New York Yankees. If you were a fan of "Seinfeld", you might remember that George Costanza worked for Steinbrenner.
Every time I felt/been in an earthquake, I freeze, hold my breath and wondering when it is going to end. Depending on where the epicenter is, most earthquakes where I live is short in time, but it feels like it takes forever to stop. Then comes the aftershocks which should be less powerful. I think the worse one for us was the Northridge earthquake which is 20+ miles away, the other side of the Santa Monica Mts. from us, but no electricity for a few days. That is why the need for preparedness supply to have on hand. Water, non-perishable foods, candles, flashlights, batteries, portable radio, medication, etc... so one does not have to travel and probably others beat you to it taking/buying what they can off the store shelves. You do not want to waste your gasoline, just in case you have to evacuate or be in a store during an aftershock worrying something falling off the shelf, building collapse, or unable to communicate to those at home is everyone is okay. I do not know about today, with cell phones, computers and how those effects getting in contact with others. Back in the1980's while at work 25 miles away from home, we experienced a bad earthquake that was far from us. Once the payphone was unused, I could not get a call to home if my mom was okay. I did get through to my boyfriend and asked if he can call and check on her for me since they are only several miles apart. The phones get jammed when everyone is trying to call out. Whenever I feel a strong or long-lasting earthquake, I just hope we were the epicenter because if it was elsewhere, just think how hard, powerful it was for others who are in the middle of it, and they might be 50 miles from us. The earthquake degree depends on its fault line. The Northridge earthquake did a lot of damage to a nearby town from us, but it did not do the same damage to areas surrounding it. Where I live, our utilities are underground, so we do not have to worry about utility poles toppling over, if you smell gas, shut off your gas lines to avoid fires, but we are built on sand by the beach and we have to worry about liquid fraction. California is part of the ring of fire, and I am close to the coast. Westside of the U.S. has to be alert if there is a big earthquake along the ring of fire, the other side of that ring we might get a tsunami headed our way. Never had to experienced that with any of the Asian countries' earthquakes, but we are aware of the possibilities and need to get to high ground and/or away from the coast. I do not know if England has places or amusement parks that simulate different strength levels of earthquakes or hurricane winds? I believe Italy has earthquakes. Thank goodness Europe does not have many or any earthquakes/volcano eruptions. I wonder your buildings are old and how they can withstand an earthquake.
My Family were big Baseball fans but were spread around the Country, Pennsylvania, New York, New Jersey, Florida .... And were watching! But Our first thought was our Cousin Jane who was living in San Francisco! Luckily she was living on a large House Boat in the bay! .... It was 4 days till we got word that her and her Husband were OK!
I was 13 when this happened, got home from school, I wanted to watch the game while doing my homework, I was tuned into watching and all of a sudden the screen went blank.
I've felt two earthquakes, but really little ones. It's a bizarre feeling. My first one, I was sitting in my four-poster bed and I first strangely noticed the wind chimes that hung inside of my bedroom ringing (because the house was moving enough to move them). Then, the posts on my bed started shaking and rattling and I heard boards that make up the house creaking. It only lasted about five seconds or so, but it was strange. The second time, I was sitting in a reclining chair, and it started moving in a way in which I couldn't replicate later when I tried. It also lasted just about eight seconds. It felt even stranger to me than the first because of the chair I was sitting in and how it was moving; and I heard a lot more creaking of boards. I was right next to the kitchen and think I heard like the refrigerator move slightly or something too.
lol what I remember about that earthquake was that it caused all the tv networks to cut into regularly scheduled programming and one of my favorite tv shows My Secret Identity was preempted with the news coverage and I missed the episode. I was pissed lol. I was also 10 years old.
I started calling my brother over and over .. he finally called said it took awhile to find a phone.. he was working at Berkeley university and said he got under his desk and now he was trying to figure out how he could get home in Oakland
I remember watching this with my Dad. It was crazy. Went from a normal baseball World Series game to an emergency in a heartbeat. Suddenly, all those aerial shots of the game with helicopters and blimps, were flying around looking for damage, possible victims, until the government law enforcement could get their helicopters in the air. Lucky, but really not.
The footage at 9.20 is the San Francisco Marina District which is where my grandparents were living at the time. Their building survived, although several others around them collapsed. I immediately flew out from New York to help my mother in helping them. We needed special permits to enter the Marina. They were both physically okay, but I think the ordeal took a lot out of them, and they both died within two years at ages 89 and 97.
They had just begun reinforcing the stadium to make it safer in earthquakes, and they were AHEAD of schedule… if they haven’t been, we’d have lost thousands that day.
8.46 is a dual-deck highway called the Cypress Structure, which carried four lanes of southbound traffic on the upper level, and four lanes northbound on the lower level. The earthquake caused the upper level to collapse onto the lower level, crushing the cars underneath. 42 people died, which was more than 2/3rds of all deaths from the quake.
Yeah, Steinbrenner (owner of the Yankees) was always a prick. He died in 2010, but the family still owns the team. They're all horrible people. Anyway, I was 12 when this earthquake happened, and I live in the area, but thankfully I lived far enough out in the East Bay that we felt the earthquake, but didn't get nearly as bad of damage as the Bay Area closer to the coast. It was still scary as hell.
Finally, I was babysitting my neighbors little girl while they went to the game, it was a wild day. My husband was driving home from work, he said it felt like a rollercoaster. Me and the kids were in the pool but not for long, the water was splashing out. All the latchkey kids came to my house . QUICKSAND!
My parents were in Mississippi preparing to watch the World Series and I was at home in San Francisco. I couldn’t get through to them for 48 hours and they were terrified. We slept in the living room with our children for three weeks afterwards. 😢
I remember when this happened. Thankfully I wasn't at the game, but watching on TV and it was chaos. So much damage yet overall the number of deaths and injuries was surprisingly low. Yes I know that even one is too many, but considering the size of the bay area and how large a population there is... it was a miracle.
Kabir, Look at the Satellite footage taken above earth of the Recent Hurricane Helene(September 2024) and see how LARGE it is, or was, because it is a tropical storm/depression moving through several states now.
The thing that is most frightening about earthquakes is it's never just one quake and you never know if that "big one" you felt won't be followed by another even larger quake. Most of the time you will get hit with that initial quake with many smaller quakes to follow and those smaller quakes may last a few days. Nothing like thinking camping outside in an open field may be a great idea.
I'm not sure if Kabir realized this and timed the video deliberately, but tonight is the very last time a MLB game will be played in that stadium, before the As move next season
I had been stations at Barksdale AFB at the time and was watching the game. As soon as I saw the shaking, I was calling home to family living in the bay area at the time. The 20s it took me to run from the common room of the our dorm to my phone, the phone lines were already overloaded. Tense few hours waiting till I was able to find out anything from them, only news coverage...I had been thru a few equakes prior to this but never experienced one this large. Family turned out to be ok. Just some minor cuts from falling items in the house...then there was the one a couple of years later down in LA where other family members were at...by then I was living back in the bay area. I would still take this over yearly tornadoes or hurricanes any day.
I’m down in the Los Angeles area watching the pregame show with my husband when we see the earthquake occurred. I don’t remember if it was the next day or a few days later a news anchor held up a newspaper from the Bay Area. The headline read “SLEEPING GIANT AWAKEN”
What are the odds that 2 teams from the same metro area play for the championship and get hit by an earthquake in that area? What if Man United and Man City were playing a decisive game and an earthquake hit Manchester?
Gotta love Al Michaels..... He walked us through The Miracle On Ice Hockey game when the US beat the Soviet Union and he was with us the night this earthquake "shook up" the World Series. His voice is forever locked in these two memorable moments of time. Take care and be well, everyone. Peace.
I was there and had just moved to California. It was my first earthquake experience.
The bridge that collapsed was a double deck bridge. The top deck collapsed onto the bottom deck. It was horrible.
I remember them digging people out of there for days. Cars looked like pancakes.
I think back to all the times I drove on that double decker and never gave it a single thought.
The guy who called the commissioner to complain about him not wearing a tie was George Steinbrenner, the owner of the New York Yankees. Yes, he was a real ass, and had a strict dress code for the Yankees, including no facial hair allowed.
I second that! My Dad was a life long Yankees fan from Pa. And when I'd watch Games with him on TV he would constantly curse at Steinbrenner!
Steinbrenner was a trip… very unpredictable.
So that's where Mr. C. Montgomery Burns got his idea!
Love your channel, Kabir! I'm born and raised in the Bay Area of California. Me, my wife and kids were living in Menlo Park at the time. Been through a lot of earthquakes throughout my life. But we all remember exactly where we were when the '89 quake hit. We were without power and utilities for a while, but we were safe. Sadly, it was a devastating event for many especially regarding those who lost family and friends at the Cypress Structure collapse. It still crosses my mind every Oct. 17. Take care and keep up the good work!
The fact that 50,000 people were in the stadium, it may have saved thousands of lives.
BTW, one of the teams: The Oakland A's are playing their final home today. They're moving next year. Plan is to play the next 3 years in Sacremento at a temporary stadium then move to Las Vegas.
The story I heard as far as the TV coverage of the world series goes: since Oakland and San Francisco are so close both stadium were essentially down as were transmission lines in both cities, so the commissioner granted a 10 day postponement. One of the mayors asked for more time only for the commissioner to say no. The backup plan if neither city would be ready was to play the rest of the series in New York at Yankee stadium. The league had them on "standby" in case. It's actually quite impressive they got things back up and running so quickly.
Yea. Can you imagine if the quake hit earlier or after the game when the masses are still in transit to or going home from the stadium stuck in traffic. The potential of an even bigger tragedy is crazy to think about.
Just imagine if those 2 teams weren't in the World Series at that time what might have happened to people in both cities.
That was George Steinbrenner (Owner of the Yankees) who said that about his attire.
Mr. Arrogant Steinbrenner, safe on the other side of the country.
There was talk of completing the World Series somewhere else, and even cancelling the thing entirely. The Series was resumed at Candlestick Park on October 27, 10 days after the quake. This really lifted the morale of the people living in the Bay Area.
Candlestick park was reinforced to better withstand earthquakes only a couple of years before the Loma Prieta quake. It would have been a lot worse if this work hadn't been done.
The quake was eventually determined to be 6.9 on the Richter scale, not 6.5 as was reported in this video.
And, yes, George Steinbrenner was a jackass.
I believe the final reading was 7.1.
Hi Kabir.
I've lived in California for most of my life. I was actually born in San Francisco. I've experienced many earthquakes.
The ground doesn't really shake; it kinda rolls. It's a weird sensation almost like being in a little boat.
The most important thing to do in a quake is not to panic. Keep your head about you and you'll most likely come through it. They don't typically last that long.
I hope this helped.
Yes, panic later!
The fact that the world series was going on probably saved a ton of people. Lots of people were in the stadium and at home watching the game meant that not a lot of people were out and about
Tuesday, October 17, 1989 - 5:04pm. I was 16, a junior in high school in Santa Clara. We did not have school the day after the quake. When we went back on Thursday, every clock in the school was stopped at 5:04:37. These were analog clocks with the red second hand. It was the most eerie thing ever.
I was living in San Fransisco at the time. Even though I was just a young child, I still remember this event like it was yesterday. Nothing has ever dropped me to the ground faster than this quake. It was almost as if my legs turned to jelly.
A hankering for a hot dog saved that guy’s life.
Was watching this at work 200 miles away in Fresno, California. We felt the quake slightly. The fans & sports reporters made light of it, initially, but many people were killed in the collapse of that 880 double-decked highway in the city of Oakland. Very sad. Yes, being in a quake, you are very vulnerable.
I lived 90 miles from San Francisco in the Sacramento valley when that earthquake hit, bridges collapsed, freeways collapsed, lots of buildings collapsed, it took 14 years to get all the bridges and freeways full repaired. I felt the earthquake in my house, there was no damage in the house, but when I went out to the detached garage - there was a 4 inch wide crack in the concrete floor!
I teach geology to college freshman. I use this earthquake as a good example of how seismic waves propagate through different materials.
When seismic waves propagate through loose, unconsolidated sediment, as opposed to solid rock, ground motion is amplified. The ground bounces more. After the 1906 EQ a large amount of rubble was dumped into the bay. It was eventually built on. It's known as the Marina District and contains high dollar homes. It bounced hard. I describe it as echos of the 1906 EQ
I was 5. We lived 13 miles from the epicenter. You heard it coming then it didn’t exactly shake it was waves. My mom couldn’t stand up. She skinned her knee grabbing my brother. This game saved so many people because everyone was home watching the game. We only lost a lightbulb but school was our for a few days because they had to check for damage.
The one man described it best: That sound ! I thought one of the military planes was falling on the roof. Being in a military building with solid fire doors and steel frames left a picture in my head until today. The doors were swinging und the frames rattled towards the void in the middle. I tried to get down the hallway but it came in waves towards me. It was a shaker and roller simultanously !
Today September 26th is the last game to be played in the Oakland Alameda Coliseum and I am very sad, A's and Raiders won championships there, Warriors won Championships across the parking lot and now it's all going to be gone forever.
Most earthquakes damage are from fires not shaking. I only wished you also saw how ppl came together to help their communities knowing emergency services was stretched too thin.
My Great Uncle Pete was in the 1906 quake, in the hospital because he'd just had his legs amputated in a railroad accident. Hospital collapsed, but he was able to crawl out thank goodness.
The fact that the game was at rush hour saved thousands of lives. Most people were at the game or at home. I felt this earthquake in my home in Sacramento, roughly 90ish miles away.
George Steinbrenner was the owner of the NY Yankee's, he was always about appearance. He didn't allow his players to have facial hair, because it was unbecoming.
We were still living in California (Huntington Beach) at that time and I remember this. I hated earthquakes, especially the uncertainty of how long they would last. Prior to meeting my husband, I was a surgical tech in the Navy. We had a patient who had his surgery (elective) cancelled multiple times. As we were prepping him for surgery one morning, he joked that the only way his surgery would be cancelled this time would be by an act of God. Within minutes, an earthquake hit and we had to evacuate. (Never tempt God)! I was the on-board duty person that night and had to stay in the OR by myself. I kept focusing on the crack in the ceiling caused by the quake. I hated quakes. I was married when the Northridge earthquake hit and my husband slept through it. I was standing in the doorway, shouting for him to wake up and get in the doorway. He raised his head, commented on the quake, and then went back to sleep. I was glad to move out of California, stating it would be nice not have to deal with earthquakes anymore (not the reason we moved). Shortly after moving to Montana, I found out that Montana also has many fault lines. Luckily, in the 27 years we have lived here, we have only experienced a handful of earthquakes, and they were more like aftershocks compared to the ones we experienced in California. At any rate, i cannot begin to imagine how scary it would have been to be in that stadium, especially the upper decks, during that quake.
Yes! I felt it too and I was in SoCal in Ventura over 300 miles away. I had just sat down to watch the game after work when I felt a huge bump and I heard Al Michael say, " We're having an earth....."and the picture went dead. Our LA news came on and started following the signal as they could locate it. There it was and it was horrible. The thing that got me was the three story Victorian homes and apartments that became two story in an instant. The double decker freeway that collapsed top on bottom, crushing anything on the lower level. Who would build a double decker freeway in San Francisco with its fault history? Foolishness! Stupidity! People died because of it.
The most valuable souvenir from that World Series is anything that said Battle of the Bay because after the earthquake it was called the Earthquake series
They also said, "Let's play Baysball" which I loved.
I was in the hospital half an hour to San Francisco when it hit. I had a bad stroke and brain surgery the month earlier. I was 24 years old. Thank goodness my husband was there and he covered me with his body. It was crazy! I looked at the windows and they were moving violently-well I was scared. I didn’t in my life had an earthquake and I couldn’t move to boot. But I was not crying like my roommate. She begged for a Valium.😮
7.1 Earthquake hits during Dodgers/Padres game 7/5/19
Kabir, George Steinbrenner wasn’t the mayor of San Francisco, he owned the New York Yankees and was one of the most powerful owners in the Major League Baseball. Of course being in New York he had never been in an earthquake and also from what I heard was a real a$$.
I was watching the game up in the Seattle area, especially because I had lived on the Oakland side in Danville and one of my sisters lived near Lake Merritt and worked in Oakland. I was concerned and then horrified when I saw the levels of the Nimitz Freeway had pancaked down on top of each other…my sister commuted on that and would have left work at 5:00 and would have been on the road when the earthquake struck. Fortunately my sister noticed no one had cleaned the coffee maker so she stop to clean it, that probably saved her life.
Fun fact…we had a minor earthquake here this morning but I slept through it.
I called my parents from a Denny's restaurant pay phone, and my dad told me about the quake. I spent the next four hours at the Armed Services YMCA, watching it on the news.
I find myself wondering when I last used a payphone.
@@JPMadden About 4 years ago, IIRC, I actually found a working payphone in front of a 7/11 in Dallas, TX.
Normally earthquakes shake through here very briefly. It started out pretty small then just kept getting stronger and stronger. Also, nobody saw any of this television coverage locally. The electrical system immediately failed and it took a bit over twelve hours for it to come back at my house. I remember looking at the skies that night and seeing stars like living out in the country because the entire Bay Area was completely dark. No light pollution to block the stars.
A friend of mine lived in SF at this time. Cheryl said she had just gotten on that bridge when the quake hit. She remembered seeing a car in front of her disappear before her eyes . She said they ( she and her toddler daughter) were lucky they were on the upper deck. Most of the deaths happened when the upper deck collapsed down onto the lower one. When they finally got home they found some trees down but that was about all.
I lived 2-1/2 hours south of San Francisco and we felt it all the way down there. It sounded like tanks were driving to the house. It did side to side shaking and then up and down. Felt like we were on a rollercoaster. Really heavy shaking, no power for several days,...no school either 😆
Theres an ESPN 30 for 30 doc about this, 'The Day The Series Stopped', worth checking out.
the entire world series opening and subsequent special report and all of that is on youtube and is worth a watch in real time
My wife grew up in a town in the Mojave Desert that in 2019 they had 80,000 earthquakes between July 4th to July 25th when the article was written in the Los Angeles Times
There's constant earthquakes in SoCal. You just don't feel them.
@@robtintelnot9107 I grew up in NorCal that has earthquakes nearly every day as well. The county has a dormant volcano and had the world’s largest geothermal energy plant
@@davidterry6155 I miss the earthquakes in California. The out of nowhere surprise adrenaline rush.
In 1906 an Enormous quake hit San Francisco. It changed the development of the west, really the way the modern US formed. It is always in the mind of the citizens of San Francisco.
Because of TV coverage we had a lot of coverage of this, something that many places in the world wouldn't get until the last decade or so.
The highway collapse was horrific because of fire.
Also Kabir you missed the famous clip of the car that, long after the quake, decided to drive off the bridge.
I remember this, I was watching this game when is happened
That was also the site of the very last Beatles stadium concert. It was torn down eventually.
My husband and I were on the Bay Bridge about an hour before the quake hit. We were at home when it hit. It seemed to last forever.
Oooooh I remember this well. My first daughter was a year old and we were watching on TV when we watched people panicking when it hit. We were only watching on TV across the country and we were scared for those there. I cant imagine the terror of those I'm the middle of it.
I was 3 when this happened, this earthquake was my first real memory. Oakland will miss the A’s 😢 I just went to one of their last games and I’m still sad about them leaving.
There are many types of earthquakes. Some are bouncy types rolling ones & shaking back and forth. Some are mild, some will throw you out of your recliner or chair. One shopping center several stories high are built on roller foundations. One time I was vacuuming the hall way of our home and I got nauseated my reaction was I must be getting a flu. Another time I watched the chandelier, swaying back-and-forth and one time the front window was rattling. 😅
George Steinbrenner was the owner of the New York Yankees. If you were a fan of "Seinfeld", you might remember that George Costanza worked for Steinbrenner.
"Once I ate the same thing for a whole Year Chilli in a Edible Bowl! Ya eat the Chilli and then the Bowl!"
Every time I felt/been in an earthquake, I freeze, hold my breath and wondering when it is going to end. Depending on where the epicenter is, most earthquakes where I live is short in time, but it feels like it takes forever to stop. Then comes the aftershocks which should be less powerful. I think the worse one for us was the Northridge earthquake which is 20+ miles away, the other side of the Santa Monica Mts. from us, but no electricity for a few days. That is why the need for preparedness supply to have on hand. Water, non-perishable foods, candles, flashlights, batteries, portable radio, medication, etc... so one does not have to travel and probably others beat you to it taking/buying what they can off the store shelves. You do not want to waste your gasoline, just in case you have to evacuate or be in a store during an aftershock worrying something falling off the shelf, building collapse, or unable to communicate to those at home is everyone is okay. I do not know about today, with cell phones, computers and how those effects getting in contact with others. Back in the1980's while at work 25 miles away from home, we experienced a bad earthquake that was far from us. Once the payphone was unused, I could not get a call to home if my mom was okay. I did get through to my boyfriend and asked if he can call and check on her for me since they are only several miles apart. The phones get jammed when everyone is trying to call out.
Whenever I feel a strong or long-lasting earthquake, I just hope we were the epicenter because if it was elsewhere, just think how hard, powerful it was for others who are in the middle of it, and they might be 50 miles from us. The earthquake degree depends on its fault line. The Northridge earthquake did a lot of damage to a nearby town from us, but it did not do the same damage to areas surrounding it. Where I live, our utilities are underground, so we do not have to worry about utility poles toppling over, if you smell gas, shut off your gas lines to avoid fires, but we are built on sand by the beach and we have to worry about liquid fraction. California is part of the ring of fire, and I am close to the coast. Westside of the U.S. has to be alert if there is a big earthquake along the ring of fire, the other side of that ring we might get a tsunami headed our way. Never had to experienced that with any of the Asian countries' earthquakes, but we are aware of the possibilities and need to get to high ground and/or away from the coast.
I do not know if England has places or amusement parks that simulate different strength levels of earthquakes or hurricane winds? I believe Italy has earthquakes. Thank goodness Europe does not have many or any earthquakes/volcano eruptions. I wonder your buildings are old and how they can withstand an earthquake.
My Family were big Baseball fans but were spread around the Country, Pennsylvania, New York, New Jersey, Florida .... And were watching! But Our first thought was our Cousin Jane who was living in San Francisco! Luckily she was living on a large House Boat in the bay! .... It was 4 days till we got word that her and her Husband were OK!
I have a friend who was an ER nurse in the Bay area when the quake hit. It was a mess.
I had just gotten off work and had drove on the freeway that fell down, and was almost home when the earthquake hit
I was 13 when this happened, got home from school, I wanted to watch the game while doing my homework, I was tuned into watching and all of a sudden the screen went blank.
My sister had been living in California for less than a year. She moved back home to Michigan a month later.
my dad was there, in the upper deck, and it took him about 6 hours to get home (50 miles north)
I've felt two earthquakes, but really little ones. It's a bizarre feeling. My first one, I was sitting in my four-poster bed and I first strangely noticed the wind chimes that hung inside of my bedroom ringing (because the house was moving enough to move them). Then, the posts on my bed started shaking and rattling and I heard boards that make up the house creaking. It only lasted about five seconds or so, but it was strange. The second time, I was sitting in a reclining chair, and it started moving in a way in which I couldn't replicate later when I tried. It also lasted just about eight seconds. It felt even stranger to me than the first because of the chair I was sitting in and how it was moving; and I heard a lot more creaking of boards. I was right next to the kitchen and think I heard like the refrigerator move slightly or something too.
lol what I remember about that earthquake was that it caused all the tv networks to cut into regularly scheduled programming and one of my favorite tv shows My Secret Identity was preempted with the news coverage and I missed the episode. I was pissed lol. I was also 10 years old.
I started calling my brother over and over .. he finally called said it took awhile to find a phone.. he was working at Berkeley university and said he got under his desk and now he was trying to figure out how he could get home in Oakland
I remember watching this with my Dad. It was crazy. Went from a normal baseball World Series game to an emergency in a heartbeat. Suddenly, all those aerial shots of the game with helicopters and blimps, were flying around looking for damage, possible victims, until the government law enforcement could get their helicopters in the air. Lucky, but really not.
The footage at 9.20 is the San Francisco Marina District which is where my grandparents were living at the time. Their building survived, although several others around them collapsed. I immediately flew out from New York to help my mother in helping them. We needed special permits to enter the Marina. They were both physically okay, but I think the ordeal took a lot out of them, and they both died within two years at ages 89 and 97.
George Steinbrenner was infamous for saying and doing controversial things. Nothing truly terrible.
I Loved how the protrayed him on "Seinfeld"!
I was living in SF when the earthquake hit a was pushing a friends car . It felt like I was on a small boat on the ocean
may be scary the first time; but, I've been through so many it's now like , "oh, an earthquake." 6.9 is the biggest I've been in.
I'm from the Bay Area, but I was working in Virginia. I could reach my parents and sisters, but they couldn't reach each other.
Pretty sure Steinbrenner made that comment tongue in cheek
Ya Never Knew with Old George!
My mom was on Amtrak going to LA from Seattle….they told passengers they could get on a bus to get to LA or go back to Seattle my mom came back home.
They had just begun reinforcing the stadium to make it safer in earthquakes, and they were AHEAD of schedule… if they haven’t been, we’d have lost thousands that day.
I’ve been to San Francisco many times. I’ve never experienced an earthquake there but it was always in the back of my mind when I was there.
8.46 is a dual-deck highway called the Cypress Structure, which carried four lanes of southbound traffic on the upper level, and four lanes northbound on the lower level. The earthquake caused the upper level to collapse onto the lower level, crushing the cars underneath. 42 people died, which was more than 2/3rds of all deaths from the quake.
Yeah, Steinbrenner (owner of the Yankees) was always a prick. He died in 2010, but the family still owns the team. They're all horrible people.
Anyway, I was 12 when this earthquake happened, and I live in the area, but thankfully I lived far enough out in the East Bay that we felt the earthquake, but didn't get nearly as bad of damage as the Bay Area closer to the coast. It was still scary as hell.
Finally, I was babysitting my neighbors little girl while they went to the game, it was a wild day. My husband was driving home from work, he said it felt like a rollercoaster. Me and the kids were in the pool but not for long, the water was splashing out. All the latchkey kids came to my house . QUICKSAND!
Good Day from shaky California Kabir!!
I was 8 years old and injured in the quake.
My parents were in Mississippi preparing to watch the World Series and I was at home in San Francisco. I couldn’t get through to them for 48 hours and they were terrified. We slept in the living room with our children for three weeks afterwards. 😢
Can't believe it has been 35 years since this happened.
I remember when this happened. Thankfully I wasn't at the game, but watching on TV and it was chaos. So much damage yet overall the number of deaths and injuries was surprisingly low. Yes I know that even one is too many, but considering the size of the bay area and how large a population there is... it was a miracle.
Kabir, Look at the Satellite footage taken above earth of the Recent Hurricane Helene(September 2024) and see how LARGE it is, or was, because it is a tropical storm/depression moving through several states now.
Tomorrow I start being more civilized. I will wear a tie! Yippiieeehh!
I felt it in southern California
The thing that is most frightening about earthquakes is it's never just one quake and you never know if that "big one" you felt won't be followed by another even larger quake. Most of the time you will get hit with that initial quake with many smaller quakes to follow and those smaller quakes may last a few days. Nothing like thinking camping outside in an open field may be a great idea.
I was watching this game when it happened.
I was at home in dublin ca when it hit
I was getting ready for football practice and ran outside in my underwear. Remember every second of that quake.
I'm not sure if Kabir realized this and timed the video deliberately, but tonight is the very last time a MLB game will be played in that stadium, before the As move next season
I had been stations at Barksdale AFB at the time and was watching the game. As soon as I saw the shaking, I was calling home to family living in the bay area at the time. The 20s it took me to run from the common room of the our dorm to my phone, the phone lines were already overloaded. Tense few hours waiting till I was able to find out anything from them, only news coverage...I had been thru a few equakes prior to this but never experienced one this large. Family turned out to be ok. Just some minor cuts from falling items in the house...then there was the one a couple of years later down in LA where other family members were at...by then I was living back in the bay area. I would still take this over yearly tornadoes or hurricanes any day.
Get this I lived about 100 miles north San Francisco and we didn’t feel it We were outside throwing a football
The A's coincidently have just vacated Oakland.
The day before my 4th birthday. I do remember my mom was watching the highlights when the channel turned off.
A yearning for a hot dog saves that mans life 😂❤!
Aftershocks happen.
Michael's hair is still the same color after al these years!!
Is it a coincidence the only time both Bay Area teams met in the World Series is when the earthquake happen?
I’m down in the Los Angeles area watching the pregame show with my husband when we see the earthquake occurred. I don’t remember if it was the next day or a few days later a news anchor held up a newspaper from the Bay Area. The headline read “SLEEPING GIANT AWAKEN”
What are the odds that 2 teams from the same metro area play for the championship and get hit by an earthquake in that area? What if Man United and Man City were playing a decisive game and an earthquake hit Manchester?
Dave Stewart, great pitcher, great human being.
Just for the unread or ill-informed, there is no such thing as
earthquake weather.😮
Ooh, the 1989 Loma Prieta quake. Kabir, I was watching the World Series this very night. Kinda memorable, y'know. Also, FIRST!
People are going to drown
Steinbrenner was a major jerk - in all things. Not surprised he would say that. 😒