Strong winds, heavy snowfall prompt weather warnings for 4 B.C. Interior highways - Abbotsford News

“I’ll tell you what, we’re having an earthquake!”Veteran sports broadcaster Al Michaels was the first person to break that news to the world out of San Francisco’s Candlestick Park on Oct. 17, 1989. Before he could finish the sentence, the powerful magnitude 6.9 earthquake severed power and communications throughout California’s Bay Area. Loma Prieta, also known as the World Series earthquake, remains one of the most significant disasters to strike the region in modern history. RELATED: The Great Quake of 1906 nearly wiped San Francisco off the mapA rupture within the San Andreas Fault network occurred at 5:04 p.m. local time near the Loma Prieta Peak, unleashing a powerful earthquake centred about 90 km southeast of downtown San Francisco. Strong to severe shaking rattled the Bay Area for nearly 30 seconds. Numerous buildings collapsed, especially near the epicentre and on the soft ground of San Francisco’s Marina District. Content continues belowA pancake-style collapse occurred along a section of a double-decker highway in Oakland called the Cypress Street Viaduct, a tragedy which was responsible for most of the disaster’s 63 fatalities.