Case Study of Earthquakes MEDC - Loma Prieta, San Francisco, USA

Fact File

• 6.9 on the Richter scale.
• The epicentre was 10 miles north of Santa Cruz on the San Andreas Fault.
• The tremors lasted 15 seconds.
• 63 people were killed.
• 3,800 injured.

San Andreas Fault

• Constructive plate boundary (a plate boundary where two plates move in the same direction with one normally moving faster than the…