3.8 Magnitude Earthquake Rattles Long Beach
A magnitude 3.8 earthquake rattled Long Beach and the South Bay today.
The epicenter of today’s 9:06 a.m. rattler was just several hundred yards beneath the streets of eastern Long Beach, according to automated seismographs operated by the USGS and local universities. Computer maps showed the epicenter to be near the Cal State Long Beach campus.
People told the USGS they felt the quake widely across the Los Angeles basin, and as far east as Riverside.
The earth movement was reported as weak, and no damage was tallied by public safety officials.
The quake struck in approximately the same location as the 1933 magnitude 6.4 Long Beach Earthquake, which claimed 115 lives and caused hundreds of schools, stores and houses to collapse.
