An earthquake with a magnitude of 4.0 was reported near Inglewood at 4:44 a.m. Monday morning, less than half an hour after a smaller pace hit the same area.
According to the U.S. Geological Survey, the small earthquake was felt across southern California. The 3.3 pace that preceded it started at 4:15 p.m. No damage was done.
The quake was near the intersection of Prairie and Century Boulevard. It took place less than a mile from Lennox, less than a mile from Hawthorne, a mile from Los Angeles and a mile from Del Aire.
The earthquake expert, dr. Lucy Jones, said on Twitter that two tremors were strong enough to be ‘felt by most people awake in LA’, but noted that it was ‘very deep’, about 20 kilometers. She added that it was probably not on any mapped errors.
The 4.0 pace was followed by several smaller tremors in the Inglewood and Lennox arwa.
In the last ten days, there have been three earthquakes with a magnitude of 3.0 or more in the area.
An average of five earthquakes with a magnitude of between 3.0 and 4.0 occur each year in the Greater Los Angeles area, according to a recent three-year sample.
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