In October of ‘89
things were going fine;
Then came the seventeenth,
that trapped and killed people beneath,
The cypress while cares were in a line.
The time was 5:04
when fate knocked on the door;
The earth began to move,
as the fault made a grove,
and shook things to the floor.
Shake Rattle and roll,
I ran into a pole;
only [...]
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Earthquake 1989
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- The Chronicle’s 10-Year Retrospective of Loma Prieta
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