See amazing before and after footage of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. Explore more here: http://gtty.im/2okSVLx | Getty Images

On this day in 1989, a powerful 6.9 magnitude earthquake struck the Bay Area, changing lives forever. The Loma Prieta Earthquake took 63 lives, injured over 3,000, and caused devastating damage. This include the collapse of part of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge and massive fires in the Marina District. | KPIX CBS San Francisco Bay Area

For years, experts warned that the Bay Area was due for a major earthquake, but no one knew when or where it would strike. On October 17, 1989, the answer came with a fury. Relive the earth-shaking disaster tonight at 10 on Make It Out Alive. http://bit.ly/2K80lPJ | Smithsonian Channel

San Francisco Earthquake Aftermath, Part 3 Chilling post-earthquake footage, shot in the Western Addition and on Market Street in San Francisco. The first sequence (Western Addition) shows a great deal of evocative neighborhood detail from one hundred seventeen years ago. [This video, titled [San Francisco Earthquake Aftermath, Part 3], is a public domain work, as it was created over a century ago and is no longer under copyright protection. It is made available under the Creative Commons Attrib