Long Beach Earthquake

The Long Beach earthquake of 10. March 1933 was an earthquake measuring 6.4 on the Richter scale . It is named after the city ​​of Long Beach in the US state of California , but the epicenter was off the coast of nearby Huntington Beach on the Newport-Inglewood Fault . The quake claimed 115 lives and destroyed numerous buildings, especially those made of bricks . The Long Beach Quake resulted in the 1933 Field Act , a law that established earthquake-proof construction in California public schools.

literature

• Abraham Hoffman, California's Deadliest Earthquakes , The History Press, Charleston (South Carolina) 2017, ISBN 9781467136020 , pp. 69-76.