OMG' La Earthquake : Magnitude 4.4 Earthquake Rattles Los Angeles, Felt Over Wide Area Just Now

La Earthquake : Magnitude 4.4 earthquake rattles Los Angeles, felt over wide area. On Monday afternoon, the Los Angeles region was shook by an earthquake with a magnitude of 4.4, centered in El Sereno.

Although a large portion of Southern California felt the tremor, no significant damage was immediately reported.

According to municipal spokesperson Lisa Derderian, an earthquake at Pasadena municipal Hall resulted in the break of a water pipe, which allowed water to seep for almost an hour before being stopped.

Additionally, it resulted in a problem with the building’s elevators, and before being let out, an employee was stranded in one of the cars for almost twenty minutes. Until the elevators are fixed, they will remain closed.

In addition to sending an engineer to the Rose Bowl as a precaution to look for any problems, the fire department is surveying the city.

The earthquake should serve as a warning to locals to be ready for a significant emergency. According to authorities, people should constantly be prepared for a stronger earthquake.

When the shaking began, Darlene Hampton, a senior office assistant in the Pasadena city manager’s office, was assisting a resident at City Hall.

The individual was “having a little bad day,” according to Hampton. After I helped her to calm down, we merely remarked, ‘Everything will work out, right?’ Subsequently, there was an earthquake. However, we were also praying a little bit.

According to Hampton, every worker and client was able to exit the facility securely and wait outside for the fire department to come.

The ironic part is that I said, “You see how quickly God works?” as she was leaving.

Shoppers began contacting loved ones to check on them after the brief up-and-down motion caused by the shaking toppled shampoo bottles off the shelf at the Target in Alhambra and the “shredded cheese” sign off a refrigerated aisle.

Dogs barked, windows rattled, coffee fell off a table in Highland Park. In other parts of the Alhambra, drawers were unlocked, shoes were tossed off a rack, and pictures were knocked off the shelf.

The earthquake occurred around 12:20 p.m. El Sereno was the initial epicenter, located around a thousand feet southwest of Collis Avenue and Huntington Drive.

People in the area began to tremble so violently that things fell off shelves, including a bottle of bay leaves in Koreatown. Televisions hanging on the walls and flickering lights shook the seventh floor of The Times’ El Segundo, California, offices, which is close to Los Angeles International Airport.

Car alarms went off, candles fell off tables, and people in the Los Feliz and East Hollywood neighborhoods cried out, “That was scary!” Los Feliz stores’ windows trembled.

A five to ten second loud, piercing shock shook the kitchen exhaust hood at Silver Lake. At one Atwater Village home, the walls and windows trembled.

People in Arcadia experienced a 20-second or so shaking and rolling sensation that resembled a close train passing past.

Nothing shattered or dropped, but one individual in South Pasadena felt an extremely loud and violent shock that sent her beneath the table. There was a big shock on the ground floor at Mid-City.

The earthquake, according to Caltech research associate and seismologist Lucy Jones, happened on the same general fault network as the magnitude 5.9 Whittier Narrows earthquake in 1987.

According to Jones, it was initially unclear if the earthquake occurred on the Lower Elysian Park thrust fault, the Puente Hills thrust fault, or maybe a secondary system between those two faults.

The thrust faults known as Puente Hills and Lower Elysian Park are subterranean and do not extend to the Earth’s surface.

“We perceive a web when we try to imagine them, which is not simple, right? There isn’t one distinct system that we can perceive. And we observe several distinct threads,” Jones stated.

“We must keep in mind that this is only a 4½, so connecting it to a specific flaw will always be difficult.”

According to Jones, the Raymond fault is easily mappable, but the earthquake did not occur on it.

Another success for the region’s seismic early warning system was that many Southern Californians received notifications on their phones prior to the impending earthquake. Because they were so near to the epicenter, several people received the warning immediately after the shock.

The Los Angeles County Fire Department stated that there were no immediate reports of damage. Other than many instances of house alarms going off due to the earthquake, the South Pasadena Police Department has not received any requests for service.

The Lincoln Heights Senior Center’s Anthony Montiel, the facility director, stated that no injuries or emergency requests for help had been reported.

Except for himself, he claimed, everyone remained composed for the most part.

With a grin, Montiel remarked, “I’m more scared than anyone else because they’re seniors and have more life experience.”

It seemed as if a vehicle had struck the structure. He said, “It seemed more like a brief, powerful shock than a rolling earthquake.

The U.S. Geological Survey reports that Monday’s earthquake was felt throughout the Los Angeles basin and as far away as Ventura and San Diego.

With the MyShake app, which is free to download and was created by UC Berkeley in collaboration with the California Governor’s Office of Emergency Services, users in California, Oregon, and Washington may receive early warnings about earthquakes.

The ShakeReadySD earthquake early-warning feature is available on the free SD Emergency app, which is also provided by San Diego County. OMG’ La Earthquake : Magnitude 4.4 Earthquake Rattles Los Angeles, Felt Over Wide Area Just Now.

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