Kevin Cowherd Ed Hale, Including a Secret Life with the CIA". Cowherd has also written for "Men's Health", "Parenting" and "Baseball Digest" magazines and is the author of a collection of Baltimore Sun columns, "Last Call at the 7-Eleven", published in 1995 by Bancroft Press. Cowherd, then a Baltimore Sun sports columnist, was also given tongue-in-cheek credit for correctly "predicting" the Loma Prieta earthquake. On Tuesday October 17, 1989, the Loma Prieta earthquake occurred in the greater San Francisco Bay Area in California, interrupting preparations for Game 3 of the 1989 World Series between the Bay Area's two Major League Baseball teams,
1989 Loma Prieta earthquake large number of damaged buildings that held no victims. The quake claimed one life in Watsonville: a driver who collided with panicked horses after they escaped their collapsed corral. In other Santa Cruz and Monterey county locations such as Boulder Creek and Moss Landing, a number of structures were damaged, with some knocked off of their foundations. Many residents slept outside their homes out of concern for further damage from aftershocks, of which there were 51 with magnitudes greater than 3.0 in the following 24 hours, and 16 more the second day. The earthquake damaged several historic buildings in the