Some residents of the Los Angeles area started 2024 with a slight tremor as an earthquake hit the area.
The quake, which was reported around 8:27 a.m. on New Year’s Day, had a magnitude of 4.1, according to the US Geological Survey.
It struck off the coast nearly 12 miles south of Rancho Palos Verdes at a depth of about 7 miles, according to the USGS.
More than 5,000 people in the area reported feeling the quake, with most feeling weak, light or no shaking, according to the USGS “Did You Feel It?” Web page.
On X (formerly Twitter), several users also reported feeling an earthquake.
“HELLO! What’s the first day of the year, LA?! Did you feel it?” journalist Brooke Thomas wrote in the post, while another user joked, “2024 just casually started LA with a mild earthquake.”
For the residents of the area, a slight tremor was not unusual.
Data from a recent three-year sample shows that an average of five earthquakes between magnitude 4.0 and 5.0 occur in the greater LA area each year, Los Angeles Times reported.
According to CBS News, authorities said there was no damage or injuries as a result of the New Year’s Day quake.
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The L.A.-area quake followed a series of quakes that became public on Monday — the largest of which was a magnitude 7.6 — but the Southern California quake was “completely unrelated to Japan,” according to seismologist Lucy Jones.
IN publish at X, Jones wrote that the earthquake “was not close to any known fault.”
She also said that because of their magnitude – “Japan’s M7.5 is 100,000 times the size of an M4.1” – the New Year’s Day earthquake in California was “too small to even call it a tsunami”.
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