1989 Loma Prieta earthquake in popular culture

none the earthquake in popular culture the earthquake itself 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake The 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake is featured in films and television shows. Films and TV shows The events in the TV sitcom Full House episode "Aftershocks" (December 8, 1989) take place following the Loma Prieta earthquake; it centers on 7-year-old Stephanie Tanner developing separation anxiety towards her father Danny because he came home late at night when the earthquake occurred and she feared he had perished in it.'Full House' Episode to Deal With Earthquake Trauma https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1989-12-07-ca-575-story.html Joan Hanauer, UPI December 7, 1989 Los Angeles Times After the Shock (1990), a made-for-TV movie that was aired on the USA Network, with stories of rescue after the disaster.June 2024 Miracle on Interstate 880 (1993), a TV movie fictionalization and re-enactment of events at the collapsed Cypress Structure.June 2024 Journeyman (2007), TV show on NBC in which the main character travels back in time to save a person who died during the earthquake. Occurs in the third episode, "Game Three," in reference to the 1989 World Series.June 2024 Midnight Caller (1990), TV show set in San Francisco in the aftermath of the earthquake. In the show, a caller jokes about Candlestick Park being renamed "Wiggly Field". Medium (2005), TV show on NBC in which a character uses her coincidental presence in Oakland during the earthquake as an opportunity to fake her own death and disappear. Occurs in the episode "Sweet Dreams".http://www.aoltv.com/2005/10/18/medium-sweet-dreams/ https://archive.today/20130205052057/http://www.aoltv.com/2005/10/18/medium-sweet-dreams/ dead February 5, 2013 Medium: Sweet Dreams October 18, 2005 Sarah Gilbert TV Squad Fringe (2008), TV show on Fox in which a character's parents are killed in the Oakland Bay Bridge collapse, while the Observer is watching her and her parents. Occurs in the episode "August".http://www.tvfodder.com/fringe/archives/2009/11/fringe_2-8_-_august_-_preview.shtml Fringe: August November 19, 2009 Cecil TV Fodder May 7, 2010 July 20, 2010 https://web.archive.org/web/20100720203833/http://www.tvfodder.com/fringe/archives/2009/11/fringe_2-8_-_august_-_preview.shtml dead In a later episode ("Amber 31422", November 4, 2010), the alternate Walter Bishop refers to October 17, 1989, as the first time he used his amber-based protocol to heal breaches between the two universes. The Grateful Dead performed the Rodney Crowell song "California Earthquake" at their concert in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania,Trager Oliver The American Book of the Dead https://books.google.com/books?id=TbRsHp57CqwC&pg=PA54 1997 Simon and Schuster 978-0-684-81402-5 54 on October 20, 1989, then again three nights later in Charlotte, North Carolina – the only times the band ever performed the song. On December 6, 1989, the band played an earthquake benefit concert at the Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum Arena. Gillian Welch in the song "Wrecking Ball" on her Soul Journey album.Todd Kennedy Hitting the American Highway: The Ontology of the Hobo-hero – 2007 "...she also utilizes Dylan's rain imagery as blinding when she says, "Oh the weather and a blinding hail / We were riding high 'til the '89 quake / Hit the Santa Cruz garden mall / Like a Wrecking Ball... p. 180" The 2004 video game Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas takes place in 1992. In it, fictional San Fierro, the game's version of San Francisco, has a few quake-damaged areas courtesy of a major shaker occurring three years before the game begins, and another earthquake being the reason the player is locked from visiting San Fierro and Las Venturas in early parts of the game. One location includes a damaged overpass resembling the collapsed Cypress Street Viaduct. Faultline.mov – An unlisted 2022 YouTube video from Kane Pixels' Backrooms analog horror series that details the events following the earthquake. In the video, the earthquake occurs at the same time as a scientific experiment conducted by the fictional Async research institute.eXdIDjzy6KY First Contact Episode 6, Season 1 of the 2022 revival of Quantum Leap takes place during the earthquake. Documentaries Some earthquake and disaster-themed television documentaries that feature the earthquake include: The Quake of 89: The Final Warning? – a 12th episode of the 26th series of the BBC television documentary programme Horizon, broadcast on April 2, 1990.https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00d4q8n The Quake of 89: The Final Warning? Horizon BBC2 26 12 April 2, 1990 April 6, 2022 Nature's Fury – produced by National Geographic in 1994 .https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fc9dYboi3aY https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211212/Fc9dYboi3aY December 12, 2021 live Nature's Fury Documentary 1994 National Geographic Society October 6, 2020 YouTube Earth's Fury (also known as Anatomy of Disaster outside the United States) – produced by GRB Entertainment and aired on television networks around the world such as The Learning Channel in the United States, feature the earthquake.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QRXO39SHOa8 https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211212/QRXO39SHOa8 December 12, 2021 live Earthquake! Anatomy of Disaster 1 3 1997 GRB Entertainment The Learning Channel October 6, 2020 YouTube Raging Planet – aired on Discovery Channel in 1997, features the earthquake.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qmizY5K4soo dead Earthquake Raging Planet Pioneer Productions Discovery Channel 1997 1 3 October 6, 2020 YouTube April 27, 2020 https://web.archive.org/web/20200427123401/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qmizY5K4soo&gl=US&hl=en Mega Disaster – produced by NHNZ and aired internationally on National Geographic Channel in 2006.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SMm8-yPuFDY https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211212/SMm8-yPuFDY December 12, 2021 live Earthquake Mega Disaster 2006 NHNZ National Geographic Channel 1 1 October 5, 2020 YouTube Surviving Disaster – aired on the BBC in the United Kingdom features the earthquake.June 2024 World's Deadliest Earthquakes – aired on ABC television network in 1999 features the earthquake.World's Deadliest Earthquakes Documentary 1999 Nash Entertainment Minute by Minute – aired on A&E in 2002, features the earthquake.Minute by Minute: San Francisco Earthquake Documentary 2002 Towers Productions/A&E Critical Rescue – aired on Discovery Channel in 2003, features the rescuers of the earthquake.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vbfOY-onmn0 https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211212/vbfOY-onmn0 December 12, 2021 live Omnibus Warning New Dominion Pictures Critical Rescue 1 2 2003 Discovery Channel October 6, 2020 YouTubehttps://newdominion.com/critical-rescue-episode-details Critical Rescue – Episode Details New Dominion Pictures September 17, 2020 San Francisco Quake: A Matter of Seconds – aired on TLC in 1999, a special focus on the earthquake.8K9mzTUUaQU San Francisco Quake Loma Prieta Earthquake, 30 Years Later – aired on NBC owned-and-operated television station KNTV in San Francisco Bay Area for its 30th anniversary in 2019.https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/full-episode-loma-prieta-earthquake-30-years-later_bay-area/1914020/ FULL EPISODE: Loma Prieta Earthquake, 30 Years Later KNTV October 17, 2019 October 27, 2020 The Day the Series Stopped – 2014 documentary film from ESPN's 30 for 30 series that focuses on the disruption of the 1989 World Series by the earthquake.http://www.espn.com/30for30/film/_/page/thedaytheseriesstopped The Day The Series Stopped ESPN December 23, 2020 I Alive – The first episode of the series, broadcast in 2019 by Cottage Life Network, titled "San Francisco Freeway Collapse" that focuses on the collapse of the Cypress Street Viaduct during the earthquake.San Francisco Freeway Collapse I Alive 1 1 2019 Cottage Life Network Literature The graphic novel Smile by Raina Telgemeier features her account of how the earthquake felt, as well as the aftermath of it. Music There is a California based hardcore punk band named Loma Prieta. References Category:Works about earthquakes 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake