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The 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake occurred on California's Central Coast on October 17 at 5:04 p.m. local time. The shock was centered in The Forest of Nisene Marks State Park in Santa Cruz County, approximately 10 mi (16 km) northeast of Santa Cruz on a section of the San Andreas Fault System and was named for the nearby Loma Prieta Peak in the Santa Cruz Mountains.
The Bay Area Science Festival (BASF) is an annual science festival started in 2011 [1] that takes place in the San Francisco Bay Area counties every year at the end of October/beginning of November. [2] The BASF program features over 50 events each year. The program typically features large free hands-on science days called Discovery Days, one ...
18th century. Las Californias is established in 1768 by New Spain, encompassing the Bay Area. Gaspar de Portolà arrives in the Bay Area in 1769. Mission San Francisco de Asís and El Presidio Real de San Francisco are founded in 1776 in Yerba Buena. Baptisms of the Yelamu by Spanish missionaries begin in 1777.
The October 2017 Northern California wildfires, also known as the Northern California firestorm, North Bay Fires, and the Wine Country Fires [7] were a series of 250 wildfires that started burning across the state of California, United States, beginning in early October. Twenty-one became major fires that burned at least 245,000 acres (99,148 ha).
The annual event is held in October. Columbus Day Monday is the Safeway World Champion Pumpkin Weigh-in contest. The Half Moon Bay Art and Pumpkin Festival is a two-day event held the following Saturday and Sunday, from 1971 to 2019, and since 2022. The COVID-19 pandemic caused the festival to be canceled in 2020; the 50th was deferred to 2021.
The 1868 Hayward earthquake occurred in the San Francisco Bay Area, California, United States on October 21.With an estimated moment magnitude of 6.3–6.7 and a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent), it was the most recent large earthquake to occur on the Hayward Fault Zone.
Orange Skies Day was a climatological event that occurred in the San Francisco Bay Area on September 9, 2020.. The orange-colored hue in the sky was the result of smoke from the North Complex Fire (including the Bear Fire) and more than 20 other wildfires, which burned more than 2 million acres east of the San Francisco Bay Area.
October 2012) (Learn how and when to remove this message) This is a list of festivals and fairs in the San Francisco Bay Area , both ongoing and defunct. This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness.