Los Angeles, United States.
A magnitude 4 earthquake shook an area near Los Angeles Airport (US) on Monday, with the epicenter in the city Inglewood, west of the city of Los Angeles, reported the United States Geological Survey (USGS, for English abbreviation).
The earthquake was recorded at 4:44 am local time (11:44 GMT) and was felt Inglewood Lennox and several areas near downtown Los Angelesalthough no property or personal damage was immediately reported.
Some passengers who are in the Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) noted on Twitter that they felt the vibration, although the airport infrastructure’s official website made no mention of it.
EARTHQUAKE: Who Felt That? We just shook here at LAX “Los Angeles-based television journalist Rachel Brown, ABC, said on Twitter.
On the other hand, earthquake expert Lucy Jones noted on Twitter that the earthquake was strong enough to be “felt awake by most people in Los Angelesalthough he explained that the earthquake was “very deep” in the ground, about 20 kilometers deep.
Several smaller tremors occurred during the early morning, including a magnitude 3.3 earthquake in the same geographic area, according to USGS data.
In the past 10 days, there have been three earthquakes of magnitude 3 or more in places near Los Angeles, according to the Los Angeles Times.
California is located in an area of high seismic activity that is traversed, among other things, by the San Andrés fault.
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The USGS estimates that there is a 60% chance that an earthquake of magnitude close to 7 will occur in the area of The Angels in the next 30 years, with the greatest likelihood of being during the San Andreas foul, which would seriously affect many of the cities in the province of Los Angeles, among other things.