[redheadtoo]

This was the fault that generated the 6.4 Long Beach earthquake in 1933.

My dad was in that quake. He was a little boy and his classroom was destroyed. My grandparents, and their neighbors, were afraid of gas leaks so everyone sleep on their front lawns. Dad's now eighty years old and has lived through a lot of quakes.

[pollywog]

my father lived in Long Beach at that time and I remember him telling over and over the tales of that big quake.
Polly

[Strategerist]

That quake was famous because it destroyed a bunch of schools but fortunately school was not in session. Led to the Field Act, one of the first laws on earthquake construction, for schools in California.

It was only the southern Newport-Englewood fault that was involved in that quake; if this quake was on this fault it was at the northern end of it.

A bit ominously, the 1933 Long Beach Quake had a foreshock 2 days before it occured - not certain of the magnitude.

[dalereed]

“My dad was in that quake.”

We have a lot of pictures that my dad took of the Long Beach quake damage.

Did a lot of building repair in L.A. after rhe quakes od 52 and 71.

Repaired the same 13 story after both those quakes and rhe 52 Tehapachi quake did a lor more damage than the 71 quake.

In fact in the 52 quake I fot out of bed and missed the floor!