Great Earthquakes in Diverse Places
Series of offshore Earthquakes continue to shake LA-area coast
(AP)
HERMOSA BEACH, Calif. — Seriies of earthquakes under Santa Monica Bay
shook parts of Southern California on Monday.
By evening, the largest had been a magnitude-3.7 tremor at 4:59 p.m.
and a magnitude-3.5 at 2:17 a.m., centered a few miles west of the Los
Angeles suburb of Hermosa Beach, according to the U.S. Geological
Survey.
A USGS website for citizen reports of quake intensity showed the larger
quakes were felt in an arc from northwest of Los Angeles down to
southern Orange County.
Christopher Knight, a Scottsdale, Ariz., resident visiting in Marina
del Rey, said the early morning jolt lasted about a second. "It was
very short shift from left to right."