In 1933 , within hours of the 1933 Long Beach earthquake , Gill traveled to the scene in his role as president of the California State Board of Architectural Examiners . The results of his careful analysis of structural failures during the earthquake formed the basis for much of the subsequent California earthquake code legislation ( Field Act for schools and Riley Act for all buildings ) . Those standards are now used in many other places throughout the world
1933 Long Beach earthquake
1933 Long Beach earthquake
Louis John Gill