Talk:1989 Loma Prieta earthquake

This is the talk page for discussing improvements to the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake article.
This is not a forum for general discussion of the article's subject.

Put new text under old text. Click here to start a new topic.
New to Wikipedia? Welcome! Learn to edit; get help.

Article policies

Find sources: Google (books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL

Archives: 1: 12 months

Baseball Mid‑importance

	Baseball portal This article is within the scope of WikiProject Baseball, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of baseball on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.BaseballWikipedia:WikiProject BaseballTemplate:WikiProject BaseballBaseball articles
Mid	This article has been rated as Mid-importance on the project's importance scale.

California: San Francisco Bay Area High‑importance

	California portal This article is within the scope of WikiProject California, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of the U.S. state of California on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.CaliforniaWikipedia:WikiProject CaliforniaTemplate:WikiProject CaliforniaCalifornia articles
High	This article has been rated as High-importance on the project's importance scale.
	San Francisco Bay Area portal This article is supported by San Francisco Bay Area task force (assessed as Top-importance).

Disaster management High‑importance

	This article is within the scope of WikiProject Disaster management, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of Disaster management on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.Disaster managementWikipedia:WikiProject Disaster managementTemplate:WikiProject Disaster managementDisaster management articles
High	This article has been rated as High-importance on the project's importance scale.

Earthquakes High‑importance

	This article is within the scope of WikiProject Earthquakes, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of earthquakes, seismology, plate tectonics, and related subjects on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.EarthquakesWikipedia:WikiProject EarthquakesTemplate:WikiProject EarthquakesWikiProject Earthquakes articles
High	This article has been rated as High-importance on the project's importance scale.

Stanford University Low‑importance

	This article is within the scope of WikiProject Stanford University, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of Stanford University on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.Stanford UniversityWikipedia:WikiProject Stanford UniversityTemplate:WikiProject Stanford UniversityStanford University articles
Low	This article has been rated as Low-importance on the project's importance scale.

1989 Loma Prieta earthquake was a Geography and places good articles nominee, but did not meet the good article criteria at the time. There may be suggestions below for improving the article. Once these issues have been addressed, the article can be renominated. Editors may also seek a reassessment of the decision if they believe there was a mistake.

Article milestones
Date	Process	Result
December 5, 2009	Good article nominee	Not listed

Facts from this article were featured on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "On this day..." column on October 17, 2004, October 17, 2005, October 17, 2009, October 17, 2010, October 17, 2011, October 17, 2012, October 17, 2014, and October 17, 2016.

Text and/or other creative content from this version of 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake was copied or moved into 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake in popular culture on 13:46, 16 October 2024. The former page's history now serves to provide attribution for that content in the latter page, and it must not be deleted as long as the latter page exists.

Fair use rationale for File:Abc-worldseries-card.jpg

File:Abc-worldseries-card.jpg is being used on this article. I notice the image page specifies that the image is being used under fair use but there is no explanation or rationale as to why its use in this Wikipedia article constitutes fair use. In addition to the boilerplate fair use template, you must also write out on the image description page a specific explanation or rationale for why using this image in each article is consistent with fair use.

Please go to the image description page and edit it to include a non-free use rationale. Using one of the templates at Wikipedia:Non-free use rationale guideline is an easy way to ensure that your image is in compliance with Wikipedia policy, but remember that you must complete the template. Do not simply insert a blank template on an image page.

If there is other fair use media, consider checking that you have specified the fair use rationale on the other images used on this page. Note that any fair use images lacking such an explanation can be deleted one week after being tagged, as described on criteria for speedy deletion. If you have any questions please ask them at the Media copyright questions page. Thank you.

-- Marchjuly (talk) 00:15, 17 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

SF Chronicle continued to publish

Someone with better knowledge than I could add a section about how the Chronicle (or maybe the Examiner?) managed to get published even though the paper's entire physical plant was out of commission. The newspaper was more or less thrown together with Macintoshes and printed elsewhere (Sacramento, I think). The paper was not typeset as normal but instead was a mishmash of laserprinted stories (often in different typefaces). I recall that everyone was astounded that the paper sort of magically appeared the next day -- very impressive, and a reassuring example of resilience and can-doism in the face of disaster. I wish I'd kept a copy. Cellmaker (talk) 01:57, 26 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

That kind of content would probably be best presented on the articles for the newspapers as it's really about them and not about the earthquake and/or the effects of the earthquake. Dawnseeker2000 04:05, 26 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

This makes no sense

I've read this repeatedly, but I can't parse it in any way that makes any sense: 'The Federal Communications Commission later investigated the issue of KNBR's EBS malfunction, calling the fail "revoked".' Does anyone know what this sentence actually means? Dstar3k (talk) 01:38, 30 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

This was added on 13:39, 9 April 2021, and has not been changed since as far as I can tell. Unless someone can explain what it's supposed to mean in the next week, I'm going to delete it. Dstar3k (talk) 01:51, 30 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Los Gatos

There was a great deal of destruction in downtown Los Gatos. After the earthquake, my boyfriend took me there on his motorcycle. I remember seeing commercial buildings on the Main Street whose front double doors were off kilter, one side was higher than the other. Los Gatos damage is barely mentioned. I wish I had pictures. I know there was at least one building collapsed into rubble. This article only mentions broken windows and toppled chimneys. I cried when I saw the damage in Los Gatos. It was a pretty little town. 72.130.17.17 (talk) 03:59, 10 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Los Altos

The mention of "casualties" in Los Altos may be inaccurate. There was damage to property and utilities but I am not aware of fatalities. My parents lived there and went through the quake. Donmiguel ic (talk) 18:24, 9 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for that. I wrote Los Altos when I intended to write Los Gatos. Dawnseeker2000 21:46, 9 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]