Prieta earthquake 30 years later airs tonight at 10 00. As to why the quake caused so much damage to a wide patch or our area, meteorologist rob mayeda joining us to explain that part of the story. By magnitude, alone, it would make sense youd see the most severe to violent shaking right near the epicenter to the Santa Cruz Mountains, fault line there, the energy started to radiate outwards. As we zoom in on the maps in some cases the most devastated damage we saw was not just limited to the Santa Cruz Mountains and closer to the epicenter but in fact, seismologists say a lot of danl we did see was linked to the bay areas geology. Not all ground shaking intensities are the same including many miles away from the epicenter. In the loma prieta earthquake which was here near santa cruz, we actually saw liquefaction and amplification of ground motion in oakland near the viaduct on the i180, 8880. Thats 100 miles away, a lot farther than we typically see damage from an earthquake of this si
But theres not a lot. So this is it. Now theres one more on the way, and ill show you that in a second. Its looks like its cleared in santa rosa, but still upper 40s to low 50s on the temps. And that system will give us one more round of rain before we get a break. That will be on tuesday. Highs today, 50s to near 60. All right. Frank is here now for sal. And good morning sir, already a busy morning, steve. Good morning to you. Thanks to the wet roads, it could be a long commute, especially if youre heading into the city. Weve already got a fatal accident. Highway 80. Lets take a look at some of the videos you can see here. This is right after you get off the bridge. Right after you get off the bay bridge. A car versus pedestrian here. Chp says this was a hit and run. It happened between fourth and fifth street, right as after the bay bridge is mentioned westbound in the city, all traffic right now is being diverted off highway 80. If youre heading westbound at fifth street, chp is on
Monday. If youre on your way from the east bay towards orinda in that caldecott tunnel, lets take you over the peninsula. And spits pretty much the same the, as welluas san mateo from haywao foster city and vice happy monday to you. It ist moving along, though, and we did have an incident on the golden gate bridge. You can see somec flashing lights out there. We had them there minutes ago, but they had a big piece of metal debris. It was lane of the golden gate bridge, about center span. And they were trying to get that out of theren so the marine commuters couldc get in. Looks like that is pretty well clear. Although you can still see some lights out there. So if youre coming in from marin, it might take you a little extra time to get past that. Butuonce youre in, you are in. That is a look time now. Well send it back to you. Thank you. Frank well update breaking news now in San Francisco as the chp is asking for the publics help as it investigates a deadly hit and run on westbound 80
To leave the city lights behind and get to some pretty remote places, the middle of nowhere kind of places. This is the Mcdonald Observatory in far west texas. For maximum drama i like to open this door. Reporter thats where astronomer steven janiwicke works. We are heading onto the dome floor. Reporter yeah, drama. You arent lying. Amy, can we go back to north for the structure, please. We can walk around. Reporter feel like a magic radio. He can move this giant telescope with his radio. The hobby everly telescope operated by university of texas is the largest of its kind in the world. At night it collects the light from outer space on its very large mirror. Why is darkness so essential to the work . We are trying to catch the light, the little particles of life that come from the farthest corners of the universe sometimes and have traveled unthinkable distances to get here. Reporter why do we need to know this . When i told my grandfather i was going to be an astronomer, he said why
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