The country thought it was tuning into a baseball game. What it got was history's first prime-time, on-the-air disaster movie.
The big A's-Giants World Series? It was all but forgotten as millions watched the 6.9 magnitude Loma Prieta earthquake wallop Northern California with a bucking killer blow at 5:04 p.m. on that balmy October day. As the hours unfolded, the quake transformed a handful of folks at the flash points of damage into a live cast of victims and survivors -- and over the 10 years that followed, their images became cemented in history.
Here are some of their stories.
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