United States Geological Survey confirms a 4.4 earthquake early this afternoon 4 km southwest of South Pasadena. The USGS initialy reported the temblor at 4.7 and later downgraded it.
“It was most likely on the lower Elysian Park Fault,” a spokesperson for CalTech said at a hastily-assembled news conference.
Shaking was felt in Downtown Los Angeles, Silverlake, Culver City, Moorpark, Anaheim, Huntington Beach and Santa Monica.
Local stations, including KABC7 broke into programming to cover the event.
The quake comes less than a week after a magnitude-5.2 earthquake hit North of Los Angeles County and was felt across much of the region, with reports from Santa Monica to Camarillo to Long Beach to Dodger Stadium, where there were upwards of 47,000 in attendance.
That shake followed a little over a week after a 4.9 magnitude temblor struck to the East of Barstow and was also felt throughout much of Southern California.
The CalTech spokesperson said the incidents were “most likely not associated.”
Pursuant to protocol, the LAFD announced it “is now in earthquake mode, as personnel from all 106 neighborhood fire stations conduct a strategic survey by land, air and sea of their districts, examining critical infrastructure and areas of local concern across our 470 square mile City of Los Angeles jurisdiction.”
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