Bay Area earthquake, 25 years later
Cars sit abandoned on the quake-ravaged Cypress Structures on Interstate 880 highway in Oakland, California, after a quake rocketed the San Francisco Bay Area, killing an estimated 63 people and doing $1 billion in damage, Oct. 18, 1989.
Oct. 17, 2014 marked the 25th anniversary since the Loma Prieta Earthquake, measuring 6.9 on the Richter scale, struck. Homes and offices were wrecked, fires broke out and vital service were cut off.
Most of the deaths came when a half-mile part of the double-decker Interstate 880 highway collapsed, crushing vehicles on the lower deck.
San Francisco
Top: An apartment builing is seen shored up after the Loma Prieta earthquake struck in San Francisco, California, October 17, 1989.
Bottom: Apartment buildings built after the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake stand on the same corner, Oct. 15, 2014.
San Francisco
The Marina district disaster zone after the earthquake in San Francisco, California, Oct. 17, 1989.
San Francisco
Top: A worker surveys the damage caused by the fire in San Francisco's Marina district after the Loma Prieta earthquake, Oct. 17, 1989.
Bottom: A man waits for a bus on the corner of Beach and Divisadero in San Francisco, Oct. 15, 2014.
Oakland
Search and rescue support workers Tim Schilwachder (L) and Mamdouch Shabaan embrace near the Cypress Structure in Oakland shortly after a man was rescued alive there, Oct. 21, 1989.
Oakland
A collapsed portion of the Bay Bridge in Oakland after the earthquake, Oct. 22, 1989.
Oakland
Top: The collapsed upper deck of the Cypress viaduct of Interstate 880 after the Loma Prieta earthquake, Oct. 17, 1989
Bottom: A car drives along Mandela Parkway where the Cypress viaduct of Interstate 880 used to stand, Oct. 15, 2014.
San Francisco
Top: A view of the doorway to a damaged apartment building on Beach Street, following the Loma Prieta earthquake, Oct. 17, 1989.
Bottom: A view of a garage at an apartment building on Beach Street that was built after the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake, Oct. 15, 2014.
Oakland
Cars are sandwiched in damaged sections of the Bay Bridge, near Oakland, Oct. 17, 1989, after the bridge came apart following a major earthquake that rocked the San Francisco Bay area.
San Francisco
Suzanne Kleiman, a resident of San Francisco's Marina district climbs down from the remains of what was once her home, after searching for some of her belongings, Oct. 26, 1989.
Kleiman was one of many residents who continued to search for their belongings in their earthquake-damaged homes before the rubble was hauled away.
San Francisco
Top: A view of damaged homes along Divisadero Street following the Loma Prieta earthquake, Oct. 17, 1989.
Bottom: A view looking north on Divisadero Street in San Francisco, Oct. 15, 2014.
San Francisco
Firefighters continue to put out fires, while others are seen off their foundations in the Marina district of San Francisco, California, Oct. 18, 1989.
San Francisco
Firefighters are silhouetted as they battle a building fire, in the Marina district of San Francisco, caused by a severe earthquake which rocked the San Francisco Bay area, Oct. 17, 1989.
San Francisco
Left: Cars are seen covered in bricks from a falling building facade following the Loma Prieta earthquake, Oct. 17, 1989.
Right: Cars are parked along 6th Street near Townsend in San Francisco, October 15, 2014.
Oakland
Workers check the damage to Interstate 880 in Oakland, Oct. 19, 1989.
San Francisco
Food items litter the floor in an aisle at a Safeway food store in south San Francisco shortly after an earthquake estimated at 7.0 hit California, Oct. 17, 1989.