More Than 100 Aftershocks Follow Los Angeles 5.1 Earthquake

[Purveyor]

By Reuters
Saturday, March 29, 2014 16:19 EDT

(Reuters) – More than 100 aftershocks have been reported across Southern California following a 5.1 magnitude earthquake that rattled suburban Los Angeles and at least temporarily displaced about 50 people but caused no serious structural damage, seismologists said on Saturday.

No injuries were reported from the Friday quake centered outside La Habra, about 20 miles east of downtown Los Angeles, but the temblor displaced at least 50 people in Fullerton, about 5 miles from the epicenter, because of minor damage, Fullerton Police Lieutenant Mike Chlebowski said.

“Five houses and 20 apartments were damaged by the earthquake, but the fire department is in the process of determining the extent,” he said, adding that a water main break in the city forced the closure of surrounding streets due to flooding.

The temblor also shook items off tables, rattled chandeliers and resulted in scattered damage to cars and property, including setting off a rockslide in the Orange County city of Brea that flipped a car on its roof.

Aftershocks were still being recorded by the United States Geological Survey early on Saturday, nearly 12 hours after the quake struck. But the Los Angeles Fire Department said it had called off its “earthquake mode.”

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[B2G]

1. Lots of activity there lately

Makes me think these might br foreshocks.

[Brother Buzz]

5. Sometimes it just means there a bunch of earthquakes

This is a tally for a northern California community of Healdsburg in Sonoma county, and it is extremely average for the area

2 earthquakes today
36 earthquakes in the past 7 days
146 earthquakes in the past month
1,494 earthquakes in the past year

[mnhtnbb]

2. I told my nephew who moved to Pasadena last summer to buy earthquake insurance

but since he's a poor, recently graduated Ph.D. whose girlfriend
is going to Caltech, he probably didn't.

I was a student at UCLA when the '71 Sylmar quake hit.
That, and Northridge quake, will be nothing when it comes to "the big one".
It's coming, one of these days.

[PasadenaTrudy]

3. We don't have it

Too expensive.

[mnhtnbb]

4. I can imagine.

Before we left L.A. in 1988, my husband and I remodeled his house in Rustic Canyon (between
Pacific Palisades and Santa Monica) in 1985. We had the builder reinforce the house to
withstand a 7.0 quake.

[PasadenaTrudy]

6. My bldg

is 100 yrs old, wood framing. It sways like hell, but it's still standing!