Earthquake — California: Long Beach

When

11 Mar 1933

Kind

Earthquake

Magnitude

6.3

Where

Usa

Coordinates

33.62° N, 117.97° W

Deaths

120

Damage musd

41

Intensity mmi

9

Depth km

16

Severe earthquake in Los Angeles County, California

The 1933 Long Beach earthquake took place on March 10 at 5:54 P.M. PST south of downtown Los Angeles. The epicenter was offshore, southeast of Long Beach, California, on the Newport–Inglewood Fault. The earthquake had a magnitude estimated at 6.4 Mw, and a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe). Damage to buildings was widespread throughout Southern California.

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• Wikipedia year pages (German), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Das Long-Beach-Erdbeben an der Newport-Inglewood-Verwerfung in der Nähe der kalifornischen Stadt Long Beach fordert 115 Todesopfer”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page