4.3 Earthquake Rattles Los Angeles: A Dispatch from the Burbank Bureau

Categories: Breaking News
quake.JPG
Was that a foreshock?
There's nothing more disconcerting than those first moments of an earthquake. Is this the Big One? Is it going to get worse?

When you're almost 30 stories up in a building that's attached to bedrock (as I was), even a small earthquake, like the 4.3 earthquake that struck Newhall at 1:47 p.m. today, brings to mind the fact that it is a very, very long way to the ground.

The USGS initially assigned it a 4.2--hardly a flutter in Los Angeles terms, no matter how worried our East Coast brethren are about tiny quakes--and upgraded it to 4.3 about an hour later.

Most of Orange County didn't feel it, and no damage was reported, but the quake rattled windows from Tehachapi well into Los Angeles.

My Voice Nation Help
1 comments
Sort: Newest | Oldest
Briansays
Briansays

And 7.1 this morning in AlaskaWarm still weatherEarthquake weather

From the Vault

 

©2013 OC Weekly, LP, All rights reserved.
Browse Voice Nation
  • Voice Places Orange County

    Voice Places

    Find everything you're looking for in your city

  • Happy Hour App

    Happy Hour App

    Find the best happy hour deals in your city

  • Daily Deals

    Daily Deals

    Get today's exclusive deals at savings of anywhere from 50-90%

  • Best Of

    Best Of...

    Check out the hottest list of places and things to do around your city