During the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake, four people died in San Francisco's Marina District, four buildings were destroyed by fire, and seven buildings collapsed.
- During the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake, four people died in San Francisco's Marina District, four buildings were destroyed by fire, and seven buildings collapsed.
- On the Bay Bridge a 76-by-50-foot section of the upper deck crashed onto the deck below. A few upper deck motorists drove into the hole but landed safely on the lower deck. But when emergency workers mistakenly directed some drivers to the upper deck, one driver didn't see the collapsed area in time, and the car plunged over the ledge and smashed onto the collapsed roadbed. The driver died and the passenger was seriously injured.
- The worst disaster of the 1989 earthquake was the collapse of the two-level Cypress Street Viaduct of Interstate 880 in West Oakland, where 42 were killed and many more were injured.
- On Santa Cruz's Pacific Garden Mall, the 1989 quake caused falling debris that killed three people. Thirty-one buildings were damaged enough to warrant later demolition.
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