Photos: Loma Prieta earthquake scarred Bay Area 29 years ago

Rescue workers and police enter the scene of destruction where the Interstate 880 and 80 interchange collapsed. (Ton Van Dyke/San Jose Mercury News)
A crowd gathers at the corner of Cervantes Boulevard and Alhambra Street in the Marina district to watch rescue attempts. Three people died in the collapsed building. (Rick E. Martin/San Jose Mercury News)
A car crushed by a dislodged building in San Francisco. (Photo By Paul Kitagaki Jr. / San Jose Mercury News archives)
Aerial view of Cooper Street in Santa Cruz after the Loma Prieta earthquake. (Photo by Tom Van Dyke/San Jose Mercury News)
Aftermath of Loma Prieta earthquake in the Marina District in San Francisco. (Nick Lammers/Staff Archives)
Fire crews surround a collapsed apartment building on Divisdero Street, north of Jefferson, in San Francisco on October 17, 1989. (Photo By Paul Kitagaki Jr. / San Jose Mercury News archives)
Leanna Texeira and Sam Lowe stare at the piles of rubble in the street below their home; rubble which was once the building next door in the Marina District of San Francisco. (Photo By Judy Griesedieck / San Jose Mercury News archives)
At dawn, following the Loma Prieta earthquake in the Marina District, military police stand guard protecting the possessions of those who lost their homes (Nick Lammers/Daily Review)
Human remains are removed from the Cypress Freeway. (Cap Carpenter/San Jose Mercury News)
Aerial view of the collapsed section of the Cypress structure on October 19, 1989. Damaged in the Loma Prieta earthquake. (Photo by Tom Van Dyke/San Jose Mercury News)
Pacific Avenue in Santa Cruz after the Loma Prieta earthquake in October 1989. (Photo by Bill Lovejoy/Santa Cruz Sentinel)
Rescuers push up a ladder to reach the collapsed upper deck of the Cypress structure on October 17, 1989, shortly after the Loma Prieta earthquake. (Photo by Tom Van Dyke/San Jose Mercury News)
Crushed automobiles at Sixth and Townsend Streets after the earthquake. (Karen T. Borchers/San Jose Mercury News)
Damage to the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge. (Tom Van Dyke/San Jose Mercury News)
In Santa Cruz County, the trembling earth destroyed hundreds of homes and damaged thousands. On Myrtle Street in Santa Cruz, the earthquake caved in part of a wall, leaving a gaping hole in Kelle Oblinger's rental. Here. Oblinger retrieves a knicknack. (Karen T. Borchers/San Jose Mercury News)
Lion Ernandez lugs diapers during Watsonville airlift (Photo By Michael Rondou/San Jose Mercury News)
An ever-expanding network of fissures in the Santa Cruz Mountains confounded geologists, but even one of the largest couldn't stop Bob Meyer, a troubleshooter for Pacific Gas and Electric Co. (Photo By Judy Griesedeick/San Jose Mercury News)
Highway 17 over the Santa Cruz Mountains summit was closed following the quake to mitigate the danger of further landslides. (Photo By Judy Griesedieck/San Jose Mercury News)
Apollo Terry stands on the steps of a neighbor's fire-gutted home and surveys the destruction caused by the October 17 Loma Prieta earthquake. A ruptured gas line was deemed the cause of the fire. (Photo By Jason M. Grow/San Jose Mercury News)
Boulder Creek home damaged by Loma Prieta earthquake in 1989. (Photo by Karen T. Borchers / San Jose Mercury News)
Cal Enporg lies on a mattress outside his demolished home on Blue Ridge Drive in Boulder Creek. (Photo By Jason M. Grow/San Jose Mercury News)
Rescue workers and police enter the scene of destruction where the interstate 880-Interstate 80 interchange collapsed in Oakland during the quake. (Photo By Tom Van Dyke/San Jose Mercury News)
Downtown Oakland is framed by the remains of the Cypress structure. (Photo By Jim Gensheimer/San Jose Mercury News)
A man trapped in the Cypress wreckage for three hours helps firefighters free a man trapped in the car with the injured man. (Reginald Pearman/Oakland Tribune) One of a series of photos that won the Tribune the 1990 Pulitzer Prize for Spot News Photography.
Medical personal attend to a victim of the Cypress Freeway collapse. (Paul Miller/Oakland Tribune) One of a series of photos that won the Tribune the 1990 Pulitzer Prize for Spot News Photography.
A four-wheel-drive truck is crumpled by the Cypress freeway. (Michael Macor / Oakland Tribune)
A soft-story building on Fillmore St. in the Marina District of San Francisco, Calif., remains roped off by police tape Oct. 18,1989 after being destroyed by yesterday's Loma Prieta earthquake. (© Karl Mondon)
Loma Prieta Earthquake file photo, October 17, 1989. PHOTO BY DAVID HORNBACK/SAN JOSE MERCURY NEWS ARCHIVES. In an aerial view looking west from above Treasure Island, flames are visible in San Francisco's Marina District as the sun sets beyond the Golden Gate. (Photo By David Hornback/San Jose Mercury News Archives)
Oakland Athletics pitcher Storm Davis (14) takes a baby from an unidentified woman in the stands at andlestick Park after a sharp earthquake jolted the San Francisco Bay Area prior to the third game of the World Series Tuesday night. (AP)
Rescue workers extract a victim of the Cypress Freeway collapse. (Richard Wisdom/San Jose Mercury News)

PUBLISHED: October 17, 2018 at 6:05 p.m. | UPDATED: October 18, 2018 at 4:27 a.m.

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Where were you at 5:04 p.m. Oct. 17, 1989?

For many Bay Area residents, the Loma Prieta earthquake is an unforgettable moment in time. The magnitude-6.9 temblor killed 63 people, injured thousands of others and caused billions of dollars in damage. Dozens of buildings were destroyed in Santa Cruz, which was about 10 miles from the quake’s epicenter. A large section of the Cypress Freeway in Oakland collapsed, as did a portion of the Bay Bridge. And in San Francisco, a fire broke out in the Marina district and several buildings collapsed

Game 3 of the World Series between the Oakland A’s and the San Francisco Giants was about to begin when the shaking started. The series then was delayed for 10 days, and the A’s claimed the championship in a four-game sweep on Oct. 28.

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