Moderate Quake During A’s-Giants Game at Candlestick Rattles Nerves
The earth shook the last time the San Francisco Giants and the Oakland Athletics met at Candlestick Park and Friday night it rattled again.
A 4.5 magnitude earthquake hit the San Francisco Bay area at 7 p.m., rattling buildings downtown and fraying nerves at Candlestick where the first game of the Bay Bridge exhibition series between the Giants and Athletics had just begun.
The quake was a frightening reminder of the 7.1 quake that struck Northern California on Oct. 17, minutes before the start of the third game of last year’s World Series at Candlestick. That quake killed 67 people.
When the quake struck one minute after the game started, Giant pitcher Russ Swan paused for a moment on the mound and then resumed pitching to Carney Lansford.
The quake, which followed several earlier temblors, was centered 20 miles southeast of San Francisco on the Concord Fault. There were no reports of significant damage.
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