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 building undergoing reconstruction after the Long Beach earthquake. On the right a workman is sawing planks of wood held up by 2 saw horses as another workman looks toward a damaged wall with a crow bar in hand. There is a pile of fallen bricks behind them. On the left is the G. V. Tucknott fruit and vegetable store with 2 men helping a woman at a sales counter. Text from negative sleeve: Earthquakes, Long Beach, 1933
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b&w nitrate negative
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uclamss_1429_2205 ark:/21198/zz002dd50v
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Earthquakes--California Disaster relief--California Long Beach Earthquake, Calif., 1933
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