The magnitude-4.7 earthquake that rattled Southern California on Monday was the largest centered in the greater Los Angeles area since 2010, officials said.
“It’s been three years since we had anything this size this close to Los Angeles,” said Susan Hough, a seismologist with the U.S. Geological Survey. She cited a magnitude-5.4 quake that struck the desert area in July 2010.
Since then, Southern California has experienced quakes larger than Monday’s but they occurred closer to the U.S.-Mexico border.
Monday’s quake was preceded by a small foreshock, which confused the survey’s monitoring system into recording multiple shocks of various sizes. The temblor was centered a few miles northeast of the San Jacinto fault, Hough said.
Source: Los Angeles Times – Southern California earthquake largest in greater L.A. since 2010
The earthquake that happened today was close to the Anza area that is 4000 ft above Palm Dessert. I have a home there and have lived thru Calif earthquakes all my life. We have a home in Texas also,
And I got to tell you, Tornadoes bother me more than earthquakes, although I do have a respect to know either can be killers. I’m preparing for the worst of both, but a lot of good it will do if I get blown to Kingdom come or become fish bate in the Pacific ocean.
I know you folks are a long way from here, but the location of the quake was 100 miles south-east of L.A., and barely felt here, no damage was reported in the area of the epicenter either. I know we are “saving” up energy for a biggie out here, and this event just adds more strain on our segment of the San Andreas. The fault to keep an eye on in L.A. is the Elysian Park fault, it may seem dormant as many say, but if it lets go, its gonna be a real humdinger!