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The new building remained intact until Oct. 17 , 1989 , when it was severely damaged in the Loma Prieta earthquake . Sullivan reminisced about arriving at Stanford just before the Loma Prieta earthquake and gave special recognition to two emeritus faculty wives , Dorothea Almond and Phyllis Craig , who she said had started child care at Stanford in the early 1970s . Ask them to find out about the progress that has been made since the Loma Prieta Earthquake of 1989 ( near San Francisco ) and to write a paragraph explaining the role of politics in the retrofitting process . At least two properties of the earth ’ s crust conspired to cause this collapse — it was built on loose soils that shook much more strongly than surrounding regions on stronger ground , and variations in the thickness of the earth ’ s crust between the epicenter of the Loma Prieta earthquake in the Santa Cruz Mountains and Oakland actually focused energy toward Oakland and downtown San Francisco . For example , a home may be no more likely to be uninhabitable following the Loma Prieta earthquake in an area mapped as very high liquefaction susceptibility than one outside of such an area , given equivalent shaking intensities .