Los Angeles, United States.
A magnitude 4 earthquake shook an area near Los Angeles (USA) airport on Monday, with its epicenter in the city of Los Angeles. Inglewood, West of the city of Angelina, reported the United States Geological Survey (USGS).
The quake was recorded at 04:44 local time (11:44 GMT) and was felt at Inglewood, Lennox i several areas close to downtown Los Angeles, Although no material or personal injuries were reported immediately.
Some passengers who were in the Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) they commented on Twitter that they felt the tremor, although the official website of the airport infrastructure made no mention in this regard.
“EARTHQUAKE: Who heard that? We had a brief tremor here at LAX “, Said on Twitter the journalist of the ABC television channel in Los Angeles, Rachel Brown.
Earthquake expert Lucy Jones noted on Twitter that the quake was strong enough to be “felt by most people awake in Los Angeles“, Although he has explained that the tremor happened” very deep “in the earth, about 20 kilometers deep.
Several smaller tremors occurred during the morning, including a magnitude 3.3 earthquake in the same geographic area, According to USGS data.
In the last 10 days there have been three earthquakes of magnitude 3 or more in places near Los Angeles, according to Los Angeles Times.
California is located in an area of high seismic activity crossed, among others, by the Sant Andreu fault.
Fault of Sant Andreu
The USGS estimates that there is a 60% chance that an earthquake with a magnitude close to 7 will occur in the area of Los Angeles in the next 30 years, with the highest chances of occurring along the fault of Sant Andreu, Which would seriously affect many of the cities in Angel County, among others.