To mark the 30-year anniversary of the Loma Prieta earthquake KCBS Radio hosted an hour-long broadcast of retrospective coverage. It began at 5:04 p.m on Thursday October 17th, making its start time 30 years to the minute after the disaster struck in 1989.
In this special edition of KCBS In Depth we play portions of that hour as we reflect upon how far we've come since the disaster, and try to find out, are we ready for the next big one?
Programming note:
This is an abridged version of the program. Click here to find the complete hour-long broadcast.
Guests:
- Capt. Erica Arteseros, the program coordinator for the San Francisco Fire Department's Neighborhood Emergency Response Team
- Richard Allen, the director of the Berkeley Seismological Laboratory
- Mark Schwettmann, a design director in the San Francisco office of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill
- Thomas Hall, spokesperson for the Water Emergency Transportation Authority
- Phil Matier, San Francisco Chronicle Columnist
Host: KCBS Radio anchor Stan Bunger
KCBS Radio Contributing Reporters: Mike Colgan, Keith Menconi, Jeffrey Schaub, John Atkinson, Megan Goldsby, Jim Taylor
This edition of In Depth was produced by Nic Palmer, Eric Brooks and Don Bastida
Special thanks to Jeff Levine