LOS ANGELES — An trembler easterly of downtown Los Angeles rippled opposite Southern California prior to emergence Tuesday, jarring millions of people watchful and putting first-responders on rapt but causing no damage, injuries or energy outages.The magnitude-4.4 quake, centered about 10 miles easterly of downtown Los Angeles, struck before long after 4 a.m., according to the U.S. Geological Survey."It was a shake, but not bad. Our inmates slept by it and we had a couple of calls, but not as most as you would think," Pico Rivera sheriffs hire Sgt. Jacqueline Sanchez said. Deputies were rught away finished with to check on bridges and dams, he said.Los Angeles County Fire Department supervising runner Andre Gougis pronounced there were no reports of repairs or repairs and the dialect was at normal operations.Gougis pronounced the upheaval was felt as his easterly Los Angeles headquarters."There was an primary jolt, afterwards amiable jar after that," he said.Though the upheaval was deliberate small in size, it was felt over a large swath of Southern California. People from San Bernardino County to the easterly and Santa Monica, about twenty-five miles to the west, reported feeling it."The construction proposed shaking. Thats it. I"m used to it," pronounced Ruben Solis, a 25-year-old security ensure who functions downtown. Solis pronounced he checked his monitors and no alarms were triggered. "I got up and went on patrol," he said.The upheaval strike not far from the 1987 Whittier Narrows earthquake, a bulk 5.9 upheaval that killed eight people and caused some-more than $350 million in damage.The ultimate jar was not expected to inflict the same damage."I"m certain people would have felt it, but this is not an trembler that will be damaging," pronounced USGS geophysicist Amy Vaughan.Scientists have not nonetheless dynamic that error was obliged for the ultimate quake, pronounced California Institute of Technology seismologist Kate Hutton.
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