Both the California Highway Patrol and the U.S. Geological Survey advise motorists to keep moving at a safe speed, if possible, and to not stop on a bridge during an earthquake.

In 1989, the Loma Prieta earthquake severely damaged the Bay Bridge. At the time, California's leading engineers said it was a "powerful warning" that the bridge needed to be made earthquake safe.

Bea and Astaneh said the bridge has “low-robustness” or “fracture-critical” design, meaning one major flaw could cause the entire system to fail in a major earthquake. A recent forecast by the U.S.

OAKLAND — Building the new Bay Bridge to the highest seismic safety standards in California history presented engineers with numerous challenges. In a recent bridge tour, Caltrans principal ...

Bridge design and construction was further refined after the Loma Prieta earthquake in 1989 which damaged several bridges, including a section of the Bay Bridge, and collapsed the two-level ...

The Bay Bridge was unusable for a month; ... Experts say a 7.8 earthquake in Southern California could have a death toll among the worst for a natural disaster in the U.S. at 1,800, ...

Twenty years ago, a 6.9-magnitude earthquake collapsed two 50-foot sections of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge during the 1989 World Series, killing 63 people and injuring 3,800. Although ...

LONG BEACH, Calif. (AP) — A replacement bridge under construction at the second-busiest port in the U.S. isn't just a crucial route for cargo trucks and Southern California commuters — ...

Earthquake-prone California is a far from ideal place to string metal over water and hope it stays put. But engineers of the new eastern span of the San Francisco–­Oakland Bay Bridge say the ...

Your April 18 article, "North and South Miles Apart on Bay Bridge Project," portrayed the efforts to use the Bay Bridge as a wedge issue to split California.

When the eastern span of the Bay Bridge was deemed seismically unsafe after the Loma Prieta earthquake in 1989, its fate was certain. Demolition crews tore it down, and a construction team ...