Terrifying History on Instagram: "On October 17, 1989, at 5:04 p.m., the Loma Prieta earthquake, with a magnitude of 6.9, struck the San Francisco Bay Area in California. Its timing coincided with the live, national television broadcast of Game 3 of the World Series at San Francisco’s Candlestick Park, capturing the initial moments of the quake for a vast audience and leading to its nickname, the “World Series Earthquake.” The quake caused catastrophic damage across the region. In Oakland, a dou