Photograph of a uniformed man unloading a box from an armored car on commercial street after the Long Beach earthquake. A policeman stands nearby and a dolly is on the sidewalk next to the armored car. Spectators watch from across the street.
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.
