Magnitude 4.6 earthquake lightly rattles Los Angeles

A magnitude 4.6 earthquake hit northwest of Los Angeles on Friday, February 9, 2024, rattling a wide area around America’s second-most populous city, says the US Geological Survey (USGS). But there were no immediate reports of damage or injuries. INQUIRER FILES/STOCK PHOTO

A magnitude 4.6 earthquake struck Southern California northwest of Los Angeles on Friday, rattling a wide area around the nation’s second-most populous city, the US Geological Survey (USGS) said. But there were no immediate reports of damage or injuries.

The quake was centered about 9 miles (14.5 km) west of Thousand Oaks, a community in the coastal foothills about 40 miles northwest of downtown L.A., according to the USGS.

The tremor was initially recorded at a magnitude of 5.1 but was downgraded later by the USGS to 4.6.

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A crowd-sourced “Did You Feel It?” map posted online by the USGS showed that weak-to-light shaking was detected by residents all around Los Angeles, with scattered reports of faint ground movement as far north as Bakersfield and as far south as San Diego.

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Earthquakes of that size are commonplace in seismically active California and generally cause little or no property damage.