SAN FRANCISCO - A violent earthquake rocked Northern California on Tuesday, killing more than 200 people, collapsing a section of the Bay Bridge and a 1-1/2-mile stretch of East Bay freeway, and terrifying more than 60,000 baseball fans at Candlestick Park in San Francisco. Reports of damage and injury from the catastrophic rush-hour quake stretched from Santa Cruz north to the Bay Area. At least 400 people were reported injured. The mounting death toll was expected to make this the second deadliest quake in U.S. history, behind only the 1906 San Francisco earthquake that destroyed much of the city and killed more than 700 people. The 5:04 p.m. quake, which measured 7.0 on the Richter scale...
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