Los Angeles– A magnitude-4.2 earthquake Friday was widely felt in the nation’s second-largest city and shook things near the epicenter in a small mountain community east of Los Angeles, but there were no reports of major damage or injuries. .
The U.S. Geological Survey said the quake, which struck at 10:55 a.m., was centered about a mile (1 kilometer) northwest of Little Creek, in the San Gabriel Mountains about 45 miles (70 kilometers) east of downtown Los Angeles. . The depth was set at 5.5 miles (8.8 kilometers).
This came less than a week after a similar earthquake with a magnitude of 4.1 also hit the Los Angeles area and was felt by people watching the Rose Parade in Pasadena on New Year’s Day.
Michael Guardado, who works at the front desk of the San Bernardino National Forest’s Little Creek Ranger Station, said “the building shook hard” after Friday’s quake and he heard “a lot of rocks” on Little Creek Road. Have fallen.
Carrie Torgusson, a bartender at Melody’s Place in Little Creek, said she felt “a strong boom and shock.”
“It wasn’t very long, but it was scary,” she told The Associated Press.
A decorative glass mushroom above the bar fell and broke, he said, and a jar of instant coffee fell from a shelf in an adjacent shop. There were only a few people inside the building.
The earthquake was centered within miles of the home of Minor League Baseball’s Rancho Cucamonga Quakes. “What’s in a name, you say,” the team quipped on social media.
The earthquake was felt as a mild tremor in the city of Los Angeles. Shaking was also reported in several nearby counties and cities, including Long Beach, more than 50 miles (80 kilometers) southwest of Little Creek.
Veteran seismologist Lucy Jones said in a social media post that the quake occurred in Cajon Pass, where the San Andreas and San Jacinto faults come together. He said, in 1970, there was an earthquake of 5.2 magnitude and aftershock of 4.0 magnitude near the same place.
