TJ Atwell TJ Atwell

Broken eggs, laughter retold from the 1989 Loma Prieta Quake

A close-up of several cracked eggs on  gravel, yolk spread across the dirt in the foreground. A person's foot and leg are in the background as if the person holding the eggs has fallen.

A recreation of the moment the eggs rained down on us during the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake.

Feeling lost and uncertain as a boy, I finally found my footing in a strange, new place, only to be tested when the very ground beneath me began to move.

I have never taken for granted that I was fortunate to have come out of the 1989 Loma Prieta Earthquake mostly unscathed. While my family spent a week trapped behind landslides, which had buried the roads, 63 people lost their lives due to the quake. I have composed an interactive map to capture the wider impact of the earthquake on the Bay Area.

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