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* The 2004 video game ''[[Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas]]'' ([[Rockstar Games|Rockstar]]) takes place in 1992. In it, fictional [[San Fierro]], the game's version of [[San Francisco]], has a few quake-damaged areas courtesy of a major shaker occurring three years before the game begins.
* [[WatchMojo.com]] ranked this incident at #9 on ''Top 10 Craziest Events Caught on Live TV'',<ref>[http://watchmojo.com/video/id/11985/ Top 10 Craziest Events Caught on Live TV]</ref><ref>[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yLVSN9Q3toc Top 10 Craziest Events Caught on Live TV]</ref> and #10 on ''Top 10 Crazy Moments in Sports''.<ref>[http://watchmojo.com/video/id/12188/ Top 10 Crazy Moments in Sports]</ref><ref>[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3jT_q7dt-cM Top 10 Crazy Moments in Sports]</ref>
* In 2016, it was one of the events that was 'predicted' in a Taiwanese time-travelling drama series [[cmn:1989一念間|Back to 1989]] (On October 17, 1989, the protagonist, Chen Che, accidentally travelled from 2016 to the year before he was born (more precisely: a month before he was conceived) to find out about his birth father, the reasons that led to his mother's personality change and ‘predict’ the number of days it would take for this earthquake's survivors to be found, and the initial death toll stood at "at least 271"). He also 'predicted' daily and weekly stock market movements in the booming [[Taiwan Capitalization Weighted Stock Index|TAIEX]] and stock [[Rally (stock market)|rallies]] using historical data stored on his [[IPhone 6S|iPhone]] and [[MacBook]] the first time on October 1989 against one later becoming a Taiwanese Pagent Founder for NT$200,000, and the other time early in 1990 when the TAIEX topped 12495.34 against his colleague in order for him to do loss prevention on what would be the work TAIEX stock crash in a single calendar year, where it would hit record low of 2560.47.
 
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