Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds. The Long Beach earthquake of 1933 took place on March 10, with a magnitude of 6.4, causing widespread damage to buildings throughout Southern California. The epicenter was offshore, southeast of Long Beach on the Newport-Inglewood Fault. An estimated fifty million dollars' worth of property damage resulted, and 120 lives were lost. View of a brick building with portions of its exterior wall missing after the Long Beach earthquake. Four massive beams are supporting the building along the top edge of the open gash. A man standing on the ground next to a long plank of wood look up toward a man standing inside a room on the 2nd floor, and another man on the ground is looking toward a pile of fallen bricks. Text from negative sleeve: Earthquakes, Long Beach, 1933
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image
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b&w nitrate negative
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uclamss_1429_2121 ark:/21198/zz002dd23z
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Long Beach Earthquake, Calif., 1933 Earthquakes--California Earthquake damage--California
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