Episode #162 -- Loma Prieta Earthquake
It Was 20 Years Ago Today
English - October 18, 2009 00:04 - 7 minutes - 6.44 MB - ★★★★ - 2 ratingsHistory News Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Saturday, October 17, 2009. 5:04 pm. Twenty years ago today, the Loma Prieta earthquake struck northern California, changing lives and landscapes forever. I share my memory of the moment the quake struck, and what happened a few minutes later that taught me a very important lesson -- being in the midst of history as it's happening isn't always an adventure.
The SFGate website, online home of the San Francisco Chronicle, has a special section devoted to those fifteen seconds that changed everything.