what was the magnitude of the earthquake in loma prieta, california in 1989?

Answer 1

6.9
# Date: October 18, 1989 at 00:04 UTC (October 17, 1989 at 05:04 PM local time)
# Location: 37.040 -121.877
# Depth: 16.79 km
# Magnitude: 6.9 Mw, 7.1 Ms, 6.7 Ml

Answer 2

i'm in basic terms 32, so i grew to become into surprisingly youthful on the time. i grew to become into outdoors wrestling (actually... the toddlers of the community have been massive into WWF, so wrestling grew to become into the block pasttime). I remember it as a extremely sunny day after which... BAM, it hit. As toddlers, we concept it grew to become into relaxing and exciting; i think of I talk for many toddlers my age on the time as quickly as I say it grew to become into "cool!". And we did not could desire to bypass back to college for an afternoon or 2 (capability loss), so as that made it all of the extra desirable. After that... I lived in California until eventually 1994, and every time somebody might say "whats up, did you experience that earthquake final night?" touching on 3 little tremor, i might ask in the event that they were around for the Loma Prieta... "Earthquake... pshh... that wasn't an earthquake. Now, the Loma Prieta... *that* grew to become into an earthquake!"

Answer 3

7 something I think...Saw on discovery the other night.