Note: Send without German Zip code to West-Germany and it arrived! Bevor the unification!
Note: We took off on our flight back to Germany on October 17 hours before the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake which occurred on California's Central Coast on October 17 at 5:04 p.m. local time.
With an magnitude of 6.9 and a maximum Modified Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent), the shock was responsible for 63 deaths and 3,757 injuries.