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A magnitude 4.2 earthquake shook several densely populated sections of Los Angeles Sunday evening.
An officer at the Los Angeles Police Department's West Los Angeles station told The Associated Press that there were no immediate reports of damage. Los Angeles Fire Department spokesman Erik Scott said firefighters who inspected the city's infrastructure found no significant damage.
A USGS website for citizen reports of quake intensity showed the shallow quake was felt from Malibu northwest of Los Angeles down to the Manhattan Beach area.
CBS Los Angeles reported that its viewers in Studio Valley, Santa Monica, and Simi Valley on the west side of the city felt the earthquake particularly strongly.
A magnitude-4.2 earthquake struck Sunday evening near the Westwood neighborhood of Los Angeles, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The epicenter of the quake, which occurred at 7:36 p.m., was located 4 miles north of Santa Monica, 5 miles west-northwest of Beverly Hills and 7 miles northwest of Culver City, the USGS said.
The shallow earthquake’s depth was recorded at 0.1 kilometers, or 0.0 miles, according to the Geological Survey.
A magnitude-2.0 temblor followed at 7:45 p.m., centered 4 miles north-northwest of Santa Monica.
Caltech seismologist Dr. Lucy Jones described the magnitude-4.2 event as “a pretty standard earthquake.”
