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Quake!

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1933
0h 17m
DocumentaryHistory
californiaearthquake1930sshort film

Overview

A silent documentary about the Long Beach earthquake of March 10, 1933, which had 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. Forty million dollars property damage resulted, and 115 lives were lost. Many of these fatalities occurred as people ran out of buildings and were hit by falling debris.