Just had an earthquake in Los Angeles

Another one. Swarm?

The fingers said:

https://ktla.com/news/local-news/3-5-magnitude-quake-shakes-l-a-county/

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Or aftershock. On the other hand, you know how "shaky-town" goes, a big one can come any minute.

Fifth quake to hit SoCal in 5 days: Small temblor strikes Newport Beach​

By Rong-Gong Lin IIStaff Writer
June 5, 2024 Updated 3:46 PM PT

A magnitude 2.6 earthquake struck Newport Beach on Wednesday afternoon, resulting in weak shaking in Orange County.
The epicenter of the quake, just southeast of Costa Mesa, was underneath Mariners Park. Weak shaking was felt in Irvine, Santa Ana, Huntington Beach, Garden Grove, Tustin and Fountain Valley, according to people who reported the shaking to the U.S. Geological Survey’s Did You Feel It? website.
The earthquake struck at 1:46 p.m. and occurred near mapped traces of the Newport-Inglewood/Rose Canyon fault zone. In Santa Ana, one person said they felt the earthquake as starting with the slowest of rumbles, then a quick jolt.

The Newport-Inglewood fault has long been considered one of Southern California’s top seismic danger zones because it runs under some of the region’s most densely populated areas, from the Westside of Los Angeles to the Orange County coast.
California

Notorious L.A. earthquake fault more dangerous than experts believed, new research shows​

March 21, 2017
The last major quake on that fault occurred in 1933 — the magnitude 6.4 Long Beach earthquake. That temblor — the deadliest in modern Southern California history — resulted in “very strong” shaking, or level 7 on the Modified Mercalli Intensity Scale, in Long Beach, Huntington Beach and Compton.
The 1933 quake left nearly 120 dead and caused $40 million in property damage.
Scientists have said that recent observations suggest earthquakes as large as magnitudes 6.8 to 7.5 have struck the Newport-Inglewood/Rose Canyon fault system, which stretches from the border of Beverly Hills and Los Angeles through Long Beach and the Orange County coast to downtown San Diego.

Research published in 2017 suggested the Newport-Inglewood fault is more active than previously thought. If a magnitude 7.5 earthquake did rupture along that fault system, such a temblor would bring massive damage throughout Southern California. An earthquake of magnitude 7 would hit areas of Los Angeles west of downtown particularly hard.
The 2017 study uncovered evidence that major earthquakes on the fault centuries ago were so violent they caused a section of Seal Beach near the Orange County coast to fall 1½ to 3 feet in a matter of seconds.

California

Faster alerts for California megaquakes: Early-warning system gets major upgrade​

June 5, 2024
Wednesday’s earthquake was the fifth of magnitude 2.0 and above that has struck the Southern California metro area in the last five days.

Earlier Wednesday, a magnitude 2.2 earthquake struck underneath the San Gabriel Mountains, less than two miles from the northern edge of Rancho Cucamonga in San Bernardino County. That earthquake, which was down from an earlier estimate of 2.5, struck at 5:01 a.m.
A pair of earthquakes hit the eastern Los Angeles neighborhood of El Sereno on Sunday and Tuesday. The first was a magnitude 3.4, striking at 9:56 a.m. Sunday, a couple blocks south of Huntington Drive and Eastern Avenue. The second was a magnitude 2.8, down from an earlier estimate of magnitude 3, and hit at 3:05 p.m. Tuesday. Its initial estimated epicenter was revised from beneath the Elephant Hill Open Space to farther south, about 700 feet northwest of Sunday’s quake.

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The Hollywood fault is an invisible earthquake danger running under the heart of L.A.​

April 21, 2021
On Friday, at 10:26 a.m., a magnitude 3.6 earthquake — down from an original estimate of 3.8 — occurred with an epicenter just north of the Ojai Valley, causing weak shaking to be felt from Santa Barbara to Los Angeles.
It’s not uncommon for Southern California to see small earthquakes. Most do not lead to larger, catastrophic quakes. And although some larger earthquakes are preceded by smaller quakes, that is not always the case.
It’s simply impossible to know whether small earthquakes are “foreshocks” to a larger quake before the more powerful event strikes.

A quake this small here would likely not even make the news.

The fingers said:

Early morning earthquake shakes SoCal. See where shaking was reported

A magnitude-3.2 earthquake was reported early Monday in the Highland Park area. See where shaking was felt.

www.nbclosangeles.com

A quake this small here would likely not even make the news.

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a lot in succession....

Garden variety quake

Didn't feel this one.

Missed it, too. There was also no warning on the phone. For one of the previous ones, I received the alert message before the earthquake (which of course is the preferred order in time, but I found it still surprising).

Too far from it to feel it here

The fingers said:

Too far from it to feel it here

Southern California Earthquake Data Center at Caltech

4.4 magnitude earthquake hits Highland Park area, USGS says

A preliminary 4.4-magnitude earthquake struck Los Angeles County Monday morning, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.

abc7.com

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Felt this one for sure. I was sitting in the shade of a local golf course when the ground started rocking and rolling. A fun little ride for me on a sunny summer day.

I was busy and missed it!

I've missed all the quakes up here for over twenty years. For the Nisqually quake I was on a boat. There was one here within the last year that I should of felt. I was sitting in a local pub, an unreinforced multi-story masonry building, knock on wood.
In that situation my plan would be to jump behind the bar so I can cut into a tap line and drink the elixir of life until they dig me out--or not.

Close enough to feel it but didn’t. I must be crawling on a different rock.