By Islam Sabulino.
The US city of Los Angeles was Monday morning struck by a 4,4 magnitude earthquake, but there were no reports of any injuries.
The residents of Los Angeles confessed that they were awaken by a quake, which lasted few seconds. Alarms went off but there was no damage in the proximity.
The tremor was estimated as a 4,7 magnitude by the US Geological Survey, but later reduced to 4,4.
“I was getting ready in the bathroom and all of a sudden I felt it jolt,” LA resident Yvonne Villanueva told KTLA TV.
“You always have the big one in the back of your head,” she added.
The quake was centred 10 km northwest of Beverly Hills and hit at 06:25 (13:25 GMT).
“I woke up to feel the building swaying from side to side,” Wes Lashley told KTLA.
The disaster came barely a week after a powerful 6,9-magnitude earthquake struck off the coast of Califonia.The western state is on the so-called Ring of Fire, which circles the Pacific and has produced a number of devastating quakes including Japan’s March 2011 quakes-tsunami, which killed thousands of folks.
In 1994 Los Angeles was hit by a 6,7 magnitude earthquake and killed 60 people and did a damage of about $10bn, while in 1989 San Francisco suffered a 6,9 quake which claimed 67 lives.
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