Los Angeles Earthquake 4.4 Quake Hits Near Pico Rivera
March 16, 2010 by Jerry Reth · Leave a Comment
In what has been an unusually busy week for seismologists, the Los Angeles area was hit by an earthquake Tuesday. The southernmost side of California was awoken in their sleep just before the sun came up on Tuesday as a relatively small earthquake struck the Los Angeles Area. So far, there has been no injuries and no damages reported as a result of the earthquake. The epicenter of the earthquake was just ten miles outside of Los Angeles to the south. The epicenter of the quake was located just below the city of Pico Rivera, which felt the strongest quake. The quake was centered exactly twelve miles below the city.
The area has been the center of previous seismic activity as well. In 1987, the city of Pico Rivera was also hit by a quake, at that time the quake was recorded to be 5.9 on the Richter scale, slightly larger than the quake that hit the city on Tuesday. The 1987 quake also did over 300 million dollars worth of damage, and killed 8 people before it was all said and done. While not all damage from the most recent quake has been reported, it is estimated that there will be very little to no damage caused at all from the significantly smaller quake.
The last few weeks have been quite a busy time for seismologists. After huge quakes in both Haiti and Chile that caused more damage than we have seen from an earthquake in quite some time, earlier this week Japan also was hit by a small earthquake that did a minimal amount of damage. While the recent rise in reported earthquakes may seem like something out of a 2012 conspiracy theorists dream, most seismologists report that this is a fairly regular occurrence and that it isn’t out of the ordinary for several different quakes to occur over a small period of time.
