The Long Beach Earthquake was the first devastating earthquake to strike the Los Angeles after it had become a metropolitan center. It hit at 5:54 p.m. March 10, 1933, along the Newport-Inglewood fault. The epicenter was located 2 miles offshore, southwest of Huntington Beach. It registered 6.3 on the Richter scale and struck heavily populated areas, causing 102 fatalities and millions of dollars of damage.
Pictured here is the front view of the damaged Scott and Frampton Building at Pioneer and 187th Street Artesia, California.
