The quake shook a medical building, a live interview on ESPN was interrupted, and the ground swayed in Anaheim, where Disneyland is located.
An earthquake with a magnitude of 4.4 was strongly felt on Monday afternoon from the Los Angeles area all the way to San Diego on the US-Mexico border, swaying buildings, rattling dishes and setting off car alarms but no major damage or injuries were immediately reported.
It shook a medical building, a live interview on ESPN was interrupted, and the ground swayed in Anaheim, where Disneyland is located in Orange County. Dishes rattled in the storied L.A. neighbourhood of Laurel Canyon, home to many celebrities, and TV news helicopters showed water spilling from an upper floor of Pasadena City Hall, an ornate domed structure dating to 1927 and seismically retrofitted in the 2000s.
“Having lived through the Northridge earthquake , today’s tremor made me flash back to what we know are lifesaving rules during an earthquake: drop, cover, and hold on. It was also a reminder to us all that we live in earthquake country and we need to be prepared,” said Los Angeles County Supervisor Kathryn Barger.
Richard Egan was eating lunch with colleagues on the second floor of an office building near the Long Beach Airport, about 30km south of the quake’s epicentre, when there was a sudden jolt. “It got really quiet,” he said, “and we waited for a bigger quake to follow”.There was rolling for about 45 seconds, he estimated, but with no more shaking, the lunchtime conversation resumed where it left off, said Egan, who has lived through many quakes during his 59 years in Southern California.
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