Marty Breidenbach's SLAC office after Loma Prieta earthquake.
October 21, 2009

More Loma Prieta earthquake memories

Twenty years ago this month the Bay Area was struck by the Loma Prieta earthquake. Read about the effect on SLAC and its recovery in "SLAC Survives a Pretty Big One" in the December 1989 issue of the SLAC Beam Line. Other local archives share memories:

San Francisco Public Library (SFPL) History Center Where were you in '89?(external link)

Wells Fargo historian Loma Prieta, 20 Years After(external link)

Wells Fargo employee "Those Timbers Were More Like Rubber Bands..."(external link)

Wells Fargo employee "It Shook Pretty Good at the Ballpark"(external link)

By Laura O'Hara, Assistant Archivist