A magnitude 3.7 quake occurred in California, about 7 miles South-West of downtown Los Angeles.
As reported by the USGS, the earthquake occurred around midnight on April 22 local time, about a mile South of View Park-Windsor Hills. According to reports in social networks, the tremors could be felt in different parts of Los Angeles. Many noted that the impact of the earthquake was felt stronger than the above figure.
M3.7 #earthquake (#sismo) strikes 12 km SW of Los Angeles (#California) 11 min ago. Updated map of its effects: pic.twitter.com/mpxAbfM2Ke
— EMSC (@LastQuake) April 22, 2020
«I live in the South Central part of the city, and at first I thought something crashed into the house,» wrote one Twitter user.
«I’m in North Hollywood and it was much stronger,» said user @ThePeachChef.
According to the site of earthquakes in Los Angeles, for the last 24 hours in the region have been 26 earthquakes above 1 points.
Yasha Flying, a seismologist and Professor of Geophysics at Cal Poly Pomona, said that the location and mechanism of earthquakes seems to correspond to system faults, the Newport-Inglewood.
The fault is the Newport-Inglewood stretches approximately 47 miles from CULVER city via Inglewood to Newport beach, where it enters the Pacific ocean and connects to the system faults rose Canyon.
This tectonic fault has long been considered one of the most dangerous in southern California, because it is located under some of the most densely populated areas of the region.
First identified in 1920, he was responsible for the second most deadly earthquake in California history. Earthquake in long beach was on March 10, 1933 with a magnitude of 6.4 and led to the deaths of about 120 people.
Scientists believe that an earthquake of magnitude 7 points or more at fault, the Newport-Inglewood could cause significant damage to some parts of Los Angeles.
