October 17, 2024, marks the 35th anniversary of the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake, which killed 63 people, injured more than 3,500, displaced more than 12,000, and caused an estimated $6 billion to $10 billion in damages. The magnitude 6.9 earthquake was the largest earthquake to hit the region since the magnitude 7.9 San Francisco earthquake in 1906. It exposed significant vulnerabilities in the region’s infrastructure, emergency services, telecommunications, and housing stock. The quake destroyed the I-880 freeway viaduct in Oakland, dropped a span of the Bay Bridge — closing it for a month — collapsed historic buildings in Santa Cruz and apartment buildings in San Francisco's Marina District, and dramatically transformed the San Francisco waterfront.