Subject: Long Beach Earthquake, Calif., 1933 / Genre: news photographs / Location: California, Southern - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

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Description:: Interior view of a brick building heavily damaged by the Long Beach earthquake. There are concrete and brick pillars in an open space with a collection of wooden mission style chairs amid the rubble.
Date:: March 1933
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: 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.
Date:: March 13, 1933
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection