An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 4.6 rattled the Los Angeles area Friday afternoon, shaking buildings and rattling the nerves of millions of people across Southern California. The quake, which struck at 1:47 p.m., was centered roughly 6 miles west of Malibu in the Santa Monica Mountains at a depth of five and a […]
After multiple days of stormy weather, the L.A. area received another reminder of the power of Mother Nature. A magnitude 4.6 earthquake struck roughly 6 miles west of Malibu in the Santa Monica Mountains at 1:47 p.m. Friday, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. Although no serious injuries or damage was reported, the temblor was […]
The first quake (magnitude 4.2) struck at at around 2 a.m. local time off the coast of Malibu Beach, and was followed by several aftershocks. 25.01.2023, Sputnik International
people were caught in an elevator. you ve got certain protocols. i understand you are in earthquake mode. what does that trigger? yes. whenever there is a earthquake felt and we are in contact with pasadena, dr. lucy jones and cal tech. we get a lot of that information quickly. when there is a earthquake felt, every fire station in the city of los angeles, they get an alarm. they are notified to go into earthquake mode. basically what that is. the firefighters will get on the apparatus and survey their fire station and personnel to make sure everybody is okay. they go to check in with the particular battalion and survey the entire district.
earthquake mode. we bring in john elgot. sorry for butchering your name there. give us a sense in terms of earthquake magnitude versus distance from los angeles and distance from civilization. does it make sense that we haven t really heard reports of big injuries or big destruction? yeah. this was a 6.4 magnitude which means the strongest shaking took place within 10, 20 miles of the epi center. some of the towns along the eastern see era nevada felt it pretty strongly. but that s a sparcely populated area. by the time you get to los angeles where it was felt, las vegas, up into the central valley of california, up to fresno, they would have felt mild to moderate shaking, but nothing that i would expect would have caused damage. arthel: sir, what would you