A series of small earthquakes gently shook the communities of Lennox and Westmont from Friday night into Saturday, causing concern among residents.<\/p>\n
The United States Geological Survey recorded 90 micro-quakes<\/a> around unincorporated Lennox and Westmont. The earthquakes ranged in magnitude from 1.0 to 2.7, from 8:05 p.m. Friday through 2:30 p.m. Saturday.<\/p>\n The swarm of seismic activity was clustered around the Newport-Inglewood Fault Zone, a strike-slip fault that runs from Culver City to Newport Beach. A 2017 study<\/a> found that the fault could be more dangerous<\/a> than previously believed, with evidence showing that ancient earthquakes there may have ranged up to a magnitude of 7.5, shaking Seal Beach so hard that it sank a chunk of the coast multiple feet.<\/p>\n Last week, a magnitude 3.2 earthquake<\/a> hit the same fault zone near Compton.<\/p>\n Residents in various cities and neighborhoods \u2014 Crenshaw, Huntington Park, Bell, West Adams, Mid-City, Gardena and more \u2014 posted online<\/a> that they felt the tremors<\/a>.<\/p>\n The United States Geological Survey, which tracks earthquakes, couldn\u2019t immediately be reached for comment. But information posted by the organization says micro-quakes aren\u2019t a predictor<\/a> of larger earthquakes.<\/p>\n The USGS has also written that it\u2019s unlikely seismic activity is affected by large amounts of rain, such as the storm that hit L.A.<\/a> in early September. However, it also noted that periods of heavy rain or drought could indirectly affect fault zones, pointing to a study<\/a> that suggested that rates of micro-quakes may undergo small variations related to rainfall patterns.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A series of small earthquakes gently shook the communities of Lennox and Westmont from Friday night into Saturday,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":462244,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7,9,8,5836,2949,124916,4465,182150,182151,62,288,595,55812,182152,4743,105248,12533,156769],"class_list":["post-462243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-california","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-news","tag-crenshaw","tag-earthquake","tag-lennox","tag-magnitude","tag-micro-quake","tag-newport-inglewood-fault-zone","tag-rain","tag-resident","tag-saturday","tag-seismic-activity","tag-strike-slip-fault","tag-study","tag-swarm","tag-united-states-geological-survey","tag-westmont"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=462243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462243\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/462244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=462243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=462243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=462243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}