A 3.1-magnitude earthquake rattled the Los Angeles area Thursday afternoon.
The tremor struck at 1:32 p.m., with its epicenter about 2.5 miles southeast of Compton.
It comes after another 3.2-magnitude quake struck overnight on September 6 near the same city at eight miles below the surface. Thursday’s earthquake was felt as far away as Long Beach, Downey and Paramount, according to the USGS.
The tremor struck at 1:32 p.m., with its epicenter about 2.5 miles southeast of Compton.
An aerial view of Compton is seen from a window seat in an airplane on Thursday, July 27, 2017, in California. Kit Leong – stock.adobe.com
Dozens of small earthquakes rattled Southern California over the weekend, with a concentrated cluster in South Los Angeles. According to the U.S. Geological Survey, more than 60 low-magnitude quakes were recorded throughout Saturday, the vast majority registering under magnitude 2.0.
The localized cluster included a magnitude 2.7 quake near Westmont at around 2:30 a.m., followed by a magnitude 2.6 temblor in the same area shortly after 4:30 p.m.
The regional seismic uptick extended beyond the LA Basin. Offshore, a pair of earthquakes struck southeast of Catalina Island within minutes of each other just before 4:15 a.m. Overnight Saturday, a separate magnitude 3.4 earthquake shook parts of the San Francisco Bay Area.
The relatively small tremor comes as Southern California remains under the shadow of some of the nation’s most notorious earthquake faults — and scientists continue to warn that a much larger quake could eventually strike the region.
A crucial corridor sits above two major fault lines where scientists say tectonic stress has reached its highest level in 1,000 years — raising fears of the devastation that could follow the region’s next major earthquake.
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