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.
Photograph of men lined up in a town square waiting for their turn with clerks seated at tables furnished with papers and typewriters. Other men talk outside a tent on the lawn on the left.
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.
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.
Pasadena residents take a day at the beach. From left, Maide Macomber, Inez Owsley (Pollard), her grandson Yates Bleuel, and her son-in-law, Maurice Bleuel, seated beneath an umbrella at a beach. Earlier that year, Owsley's daughter (and Yates' mother amd Maurice's wife), Agnes, had passed away.
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.
Construction for the Colorado River Aqueduct began in 1933 and ended in 1935, overseen by the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California. Water first flowed through the completed aqueduct in 1939.