Genre: cellulose nitrate film and news photographs / Language: No linguistic content / Location: California, Southern / Subject: Disaster relief--California and Hoisting machinery - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

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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:: 1933
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection