SF Earthquake by Jessica Lopez (event)

In 1986 largest earthquake to hit the SF bay area since 1906 and the most severe earthquake in California since 1952. This event occurred on October 17, 1989 at about 5:04 pm Pacific daylight time. It was calculated with a magnitude of 7.1. It lasted about 15 to 20 seconds. Leaving about 63 dead and 3,757 injured an over whelming 8 to 12 thousand people where left homeless. But a couple days later the number of deaths was created to 300 people due to a baseball game the earthquake accrued was the Oakland A's v.s. the SF Giants.

Destroying many buildings, homes, and bridges the cost to repair the city was 13 billion property damage. This became one of the most expensive natural disasters in United States at the time. With most damage occurring in San Francisco and Oakland major structural damage was around buildings, and freeways. The bay area bridge was also affected. Many fires due to broken gas lines were reported. Since the total 13 billion dollars to repair the damages was very overwhelming president George W. Bush singed a $3.45 billion earthquake relief package for California.