Post from Oakland Geology

In the Cypress district of West Oakland is a memorial park about the 1989 earthquake, which did the majority of its killing here. The sculpture at the corner of 14th Street and Mandela Parkway represents the ladders that local residents quickly raised against the wreckage of the collapsed freeway that once ran through here. Looking at the sculpture toward the hills, you also notice ring-shaped berms invoking the seismic waves th ...