Crime & Safety

Echo Park Earthquake?

There was an earthquake Thursday centered just outside Newhall that's now being said to measure 4.2 on the Richter scale.

UPDATE: Seismologists have revised their rating of the quake's intensity.  They now say it was 4.2 on the Richter scale.

Read more here.

EARLIER: We had another  earthquake Thursday. It was a small one—4.3—but a big deal on this slow news day.

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The earthquake hit at 1:47 p.m. and was centered out in Newhall. It was felt all the way to La Canada. No damage has been reported.

Did you feel it?  Tell us in comments.

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I was scanning the tweets coming in under earthquake LA earlier this afternoon and saw a few that I liked, among them:

@UrbanDecay411 ummm.. earthquake? or effects from staying out last night?? Can anyone in the LA/OC confirm?

@RobertNBCLA #Breaking: 4.2 #Earthquake in #Newhall near #LA. Considered to be a shallow quake. bit.ly/qBuEI

@LisaBloom Earthquake here in LA just now. Just a little one. Didn't even wake my puppy. Aren't they supposed to warn us? Slacker.

@daneo With one single exception, i have been out of town during every single feelable earthquake in LA in the last 6 years. How was it today?

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@chrissyteigen  LA. you gotta shut up about the earthquake or you totally nullify everything we made fun of new yorkers with

Not one, I might add, seemed to come from Echo Park.  But I could have missed it.

How did you get your news about the earthquake today? You can tell us that in comments too.  


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