- Title
- Compton Quake #22, March 10, 1933
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- Date
- 1933
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- Description
- Photograph of wreckage from the 1933 Long Beach Earthquake. A policeman and several civilians are outside amid large piles of rubble. A car has been crushed under the falling debris, and the ruins of a building can be seen in the background.
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- Format Extent
- 1 postcard : b&w ; 9 x 14 cm.
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- Subject
- Earthquakes--California--Compton; Earthquake damage--California--Compton;
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- Note
- Compton was originally part of the Rancho San Pedro, a 1784 Spanish land grant. Founded as a Methodist colony in 1867 and named for G.D. Compton, a pioneer settler, it developed as a farming village. At 5:54pm on March 10, 1933, a magnitude 6.4 earthquake struck the Newport-Inglewood fault zone. Severe property damage occurred at Compton, Long Beach, and other areas, causing serious damage to weak masonry structures on land fill or deep water-soaked alluvium or sand. Property damage was estimated at $40 million, and 115 people were killed. At Compton, almost every building in a three-block radius on unconsolidated material and land fill was destroyed. Damage to school buildings, which were among the structures most commonly and severely damaged by this earthquake, led to the State Legislature passing the Field Act, which regulates building-construction practices in California.
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- Collection
- Werner von Boltenstern Postcard Collection
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- Type
- ["Postcards"]
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- Geographic Location
- Compton (Calif.)
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- Language
- eng
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