Deadly Earthquake Triggered By San Andreas Fault Causing $6 Billion In Damages Seen In Horrifying Footage

California has been hit by some of the most expensive earthquakes in recorded history.

Natural catastrophes that have destroyed unimaginable numbers of property and cost billions of dollars in damages have come to be associated with the US state.

The two most expensive earthquakes in California occurred less than ten years apart.

The first occurred in 1989 and was among the most expensive in US history.

The remains of the Cypress Freeway after the Loma Prieta earthquake Getty Images

The magnitude of the Loma Prieta earthquake, which struck Santa Cruz County on October 17, 1989, was 6.9.

Even though this is nothing compared to other American earthquakes in history (the greatest being a 9.2 in Alaska in 1964), the Loma Prieta earthquake caused $6 billion in damages, or almost $15 billion in today's dollars when inflation is taken into consideration.

Due to cameras positioned around the impacted area, Loma Prieta was regarded as the most visible significant earthquake in the entire United States at the time.

The World Series baseball tournament was being broadcast live when the earthquake struck, capturing the chaos at Candlestick Park.

Since then, footage of the incident have gone viral, showing how devastating the earthquake actually was. 

These include scenes of students fleeing their classrooms and store shelves collapsing on shoppers. 

In the videos' comments sections, a few local residents who were close to the earthquake shared their memories.

“I was 60+ miles from SF at the time and it was shaking my room,” recalled one YouTube commenter.

"Our big building was old, but it survived with most of its windows blown up and out into the street,” another commenter explained.

The earthquake killed 63 people KRCA

“The experience is unforgettable and we would experience hundreds of jolts in the month that followed.”

The San Andreas fault caused the earthquake that resulted in 3,757 injuries and 63 fatalities, the majority of which came from the collapse of a section of the Cypress Freeway.

The Northridge earthquake of 1994 occurred five years after Loma Prieta, which caused $6 billion in damages and devastated most of the San Francisco area. 

Even though the subsequent earthquake didn't have the same intensity as the one that struck Loma Prieta, it nevertheless caused $40 billion in damage—or $84 billion in today's currency—because it struck the center of Los Angeles.