3 Earthquakes Strike Los Angeles; No Damage Reports
The city of Los Angeles was shaken by three separate Earthquakes this morning that includes a strong 4.7 magnitude earthquake that happened east of the city.
Fortunately, as reported by ABC News, there were no immediate reports of damages or injuries.
Moreover, a magnitude 4.4 quake also hit in the foothills of northwest of San Bernardino at about 5:38 p.m. at a depth of about three miles, according to a report by the U.S. Geological Survey. Aftershocks of magnitude 3.8 and 3.2 came minutes later, and a total of 14 aftershocks occurred according to ABC 7.
A similar report by Reuters said that the quake was very shallow at only 3.1 miles below the earth.
The quake was felt all throughout the Los Angeles area. Computer models from the U.S. Geological Survey estimated that as many as 13.4 million people in the region may have felt the earthquake, of whom 392,000 may have experienced moderate to strong shaking.
A 24-year-old waitress named Brenda Torres said that customers were a bit shook up, but kept their calm. Nothing in the restaurant rattled or broke and the quake was so short that the customers did not have the time to even take cover under a table.
Torres said, "At first I thought it was a semi-truck that had hit the building or something."
Another witness from the WaBa Grill said that she and her co-workers headed toward the front of the building as the restaurant shook.
The police around the area said that they have no reports of problems that was caused by the quake. Furthermore, it happened near the intersection of San Jacinto, San Andreas and Cucamonga faults, which are three of the largest in Southern California, but the quakes were too small to determine which fault was responsible.
Over the last 10 years, a total of nine earthquakes above magnitude of 4 happened in the area. Additionally, Lucy Jones, a seismologist said, "There's nothing particularly different about it that we can see at this point."
And traditionally, earthquakes of this size are a more of a monthly occurrence in Southern California, but added that it's been quieter for the last few years.
However, Jones also said that there is a five percent chance that the quake, or any quake, is a precursor to something bigger.
For information regarding emergency preparedness programs on earthquakes, visit the County of Los Angeles Emergency Survival, the Specific Needs Awareness Planning and the Emergency Survival Program.
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