In the face of the 30th anniversary of the deadly Loma Prieta earthquake, which occurred on Oct. 17, 1989, geologist Keith Knudsen explains the threat posed by the Hayward Fault.
“I think the level of damage and the number of deaths will actually be comparable to 9/11. We could have hundreds of thousands of people who are killed and we could have tens or hundreds of billions of dollars of damage.” — Keith Knudsen, geologist and deputy director of the U.S. Geologic Survey’s Earthquake Science Center in Menlo Park
A segment from our radio show, “Civic.” Listen daily at 8 a.m. and 6 p.m. on 102.5 FM, available in San Francisco.
