I’d never heard a sound quite like it, and I knew I wasn’t alone. It was the sound of the Loma Prieta earthquake approaching Candlestick Park from the south, like a massive, runaway train. The ...

Oct. 30—When the Loma Prieta earthquake sparked a massive fire in San Francisco's Marina District on the afternoon of of Oct. 17, 1989, live images of the blaze transmitted from the Goodyear blimp to ...