Monday, March 10, 2008
75 years ago... March 10th, 1933
Magnitude 6.4 earthquake shook the Long Beach area (just before 6 pm) on Friday, March 10th, 1933.
The earthquake resulted in...
* Over 120 persons dead
* Every public school in Long Beach was reduced to rubble
* Rupture oil derricks burned out of control in Signal Hill
* Masonry structures lay in ruins from Huntington Beach to Inglewood.
This particular earthquake resulted new building codes in California to better withstand the force of earthquakes.
With in weeks of the 1993 Long Beach quake... buildings all across the state were being strengthened.
The earthquake resulted in...
* Over 120 persons dead
* Every public school in Long Beach was reduced to rubble
* Rupture oil derricks burned out of control in Signal Hill
* Masonry structures lay in ruins from Huntington Beach to Inglewood.
This particular earthquake resulted new building codes in California to better withstand the force of earthquakes.
With in weeks of the 1993 Long Beach quake... buildings all across the state were being strengthened.
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