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Los Angeles County was rattled aboriginal Wednesday greeting aft a magnitude 4.2 earthquake struck 10 miles disconnected the seashore of Malibu, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.
The archetypal quake was reported astatine 2 a.m. A magnitude 3.5 aftershock struck conscionable 3 minutes later, followed by a magnitude 2.8 astatine 2:22 and a magnitude 2.6 astatine 2:38, the USGS said. The archetypal earthquake occurred astatine a extent of astir 9 miles.
“This morning’s M4.2 quake disconnected the seashore of Malibu is simply a reminder that we unrecorded successful #earthquake country,” the L.A. County Office of Emergency Management said successful a tweet.
There was nary menace of a tsunami, according to U.S. National Tsunami Warning Center.
The Los Angeles Fire Department went into “complete earthquake mode” and conducted a citywide appraisal aboriginal Wednesday morning. No injuries oregon damages were reported and the bureau has resumed mean operations, the LAFD said connected its website.
The earthquake was felt arsenic acold northbound arsenic Oxnard and arsenic acold southbound arsenic Long Beach, the USGS shingle representation showed. The California Governor’s Office of Emergency Services said successful a tweet that an exigency alert from the MyShake app, an earthquake aboriginal informing system, was sent to residents, informing them that a quake was expected and to stop, driblet and cover.
The alert went to 62,000 phones, said Richard Allen, a seismologist and manager of the UC Berkeley Seismological Laboratory, which built the app.
Residents crossed Los Angeles reported connected societal media that they were startled by the flurry of temblors.
“Wow. That was big,” histrion Josh Gad tweeted.
Jenise Spiteri, an Olympic snowboarder, said connected Twitter that was the “biggest 1 I’ve felt successful a agelong time.”
Other residents reported being jolted awake, and some reported sleeping done the event.
An mean of 25 earthquakes betwixt magnitudes 4.0 and 5.0 hap each twelvemonth successful California and Nevada, according to a caller three-year information sample.
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Times unit writer Henry Chu contributed to this report.
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