3.7 magnitude earthquake hit Los Angeles early Friday morning
The quake struck at 12.19 am in Compton close to Compton Boulevard and tremors were felt as far as Orange County and the San Fernando valley. 3.7 magnitude earthquake hit Los Angeles early Friday morning.
Friday morning's shudder was recorded by the US Geological Survey as having originated around two miles from the Newport-Inglewood fault.
that the quake on Friday morning saw houses in Compton shake, along with homes in Lynwood, Gardens, Willowbrook, Lakewood and northern Long Beach.The danger of the fault is that it runs under many Californian cities and could cause significant destruction with a high enough magnitude quake. A quake on the deadly fault caused the deaths of 120 people during the 1933 Long Beach earthquake. 52 people died in Long Beach and 17 people in Compton.
The USGS said people felt tremors in Orange County and surrounding areas of Los Angeles, including the San Fernando Valley, East LA and Norwalk.
Seismologist Dr. Lucy Jones said the earthquake was "near but not on the Newport-Inglewood fault."
Homes shuddered in Burbank and Rowland Heights. Less intense shaking happened in the Los Angeles Basin and the San Gabriel Valley.
The earthquake was not strong enough on Friday to cause serious damage or risk to people.
Southern California's largest earthquake sequence in two decades began July 4 in the Mojave Desert about 120 miles north of Los Angeles.The LA quake comes just a few days after a 4.5 magnitude 'good little shaker' struck the Walnut Creek and Pleasant Hill areas of San Francisco. Reports said that unsecured objects fell in locations close to the center of the rumble. Warnings were also issued in Walnut Creek that items secured on shelves could fall off.
Zachary Ross, assistant professor of geophysics at Caltech and lead author of the paper, said in a statement that it was one of the most well-documented earthquake sequences in history. A magnitude 6.4 foreshock was followed the next day by a magnitude 7.1 mainshock and then more than 100,000 aftershocks.
There were no immediate reports the earthquake caused any damage or injuries. A tweet from the Los Angeles Police Department's Communications Division said there had been "no impact at the LAPD Dispatch Centers" following the earthquake.
The quakes comes as millions of residents statewide participated in the Great California Shakeout earthquake drill on Thursday, the 30th anniversary of the magnitude 6.9 Loma Prieta quake that shook the Bay Area in 1989.
California's MyShake app, which is designed to give people in the state at least a few seconds of warning before the ground starts to shake from a nearby quake. Hours before the Compton area was hit, a 3.8-magnitude temblor struck near Ridgecrest, which was where two powerful earthquakes hit in July.
The JPL scientists mapped surface ruptures of the faults with data from Japanese and European Space Agency radar satellites. Ross developed automated computer analysis of seismometer data to detect the huge number of aftershocks with precise location information, Caltech and JPL said in a press release.'I was surprised to see how much complexity there was and the number of faults that ruptured,' said Eric Fielding, a co-author of the study from JPL.
The quake struck at 12.19 am in Compton close to Compton Boulevard and tremors were felt as far as Orange County and the San Fernando valley. 3.7 magnitude earthquake hit Los Angeles early Friday morning.
Friday morning's shudder was recorded by the US Geological Survey as having originated around two miles from the Newport-Inglewood fault.
that the quake on Friday morning saw houses in Compton shake, along with homes in Lynwood, Gardens, Willowbrook, Lakewood and northern Long Beach.The danger of the fault is that it runs under many Californian cities and could cause significant destruction with a high enough magnitude quake. A quake on the deadly fault caused the deaths of 120 people during the 1933 Long Beach earthquake. 52 people died in Long Beach and 17 people in Compton.
The USGS said people felt tremors in Orange County and surrounding areas of Los Angeles, including the San Fernando Valley, East LA and Norwalk.
Seismologist Dr. Lucy Jones said the earthquake was "near but not on the Newport-Inglewood fault."
Homes shuddered in Burbank and Rowland Heights. Less intense shaking happened in the Los Angeles Basin and the San Gabriel Valley.
The earthquake was not strong enough on Friday to cause serious damage or risk to people.
Southern California's largest earthquake sequence in two decades began July 4 in the Mojave Desert about 120 miles north of Los Angeles.The LA quake comes just a few days after a 4.5 magnitude 'good little shaker' struck the Walnut Creek and Pleasant Hill areas of San Francisco. Reports said that unsecured objects fell in locations close to the center of the rumble. Warnings were also issued in Walnut Creek that items secured on shelves could fall off.
Zachary Ross, assistant professor of geophysics at Caltech and lead author of the paper, said in a statement that it was one of the most well-documented earthquake sequences in history. A magnitude 6.4 foreshock was followed the next day by a magnitude 7.1 mainshock and then more than 100,000 aftershocks.
There were no immediate reports the earthquake caused any damage or injuries. A tweet from the Los Angeles Police Department's Communications Division said there had been "no impact at the LAPD Dispatch Centers" following the earthquake.
The quakes comes as millions of residents statewide participated in the Great California Shakeout earthquake drill on Thursday, the 30th anniversary of the magnitude 6.9 Loma Prieta quake that shook the Bay Area in 1989.
California's MyShake app, which is designed to give people in the state at least a few seconds of warning before the ground starts to shake from a nearby quake. Hours before the Compton area was hit, a 3.8-magnitude temblor struck near Ridgecrest, which was where two powerful earthquakes hit in July.
The JPL scientists mapped surface ruptures of the faults with data from Japanese and European Space Agency radar satellites. Ross developed automated computer analysis of seismometer data to detect the huge number of aftershocks with precise location information, Caltech and JPL said in a press release.'I was surprised to see how much complexity there was and the number of faults that ruptured,' said Eric Fielding, a co-author of the study from JPL.
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