) “would have been felt by most people awake in LA.” It was “very deep,” at about 20 kilometers below the earth’s surface, she added. A “foreshock” nearby hit 3.3 on the Richter scale.
The two main quakes were followed by several smaller ones in the area around Inglewood and Lennox, near LAX and about 10 miles southwest of downtown LA.Those in the entertainment business had just closed the latest chapter in the runup to the Oscars with the SAG Awards a few hours before the minor natural disasters struck. Twitter pulsed with tweets from those roused from sleep — or prevented from attaining it.
Local media also painted a picture. KCBS meteorologist Amber Lee paused during her weather report to note “a jolt,” asking her on-air colleagues, “Did you feel that?” Anchor DeMarco Morgan looked up at the ceiling uneasily. “That was definitely anTV writer Caitie Delaney quibbled with the quake’s timing. “Why do earthquakes insist on popping off at such ghoulish hours?” she tweeted. “Where’s a sensible 2pm quake?”Also why do earthquakes insist on popping off at such ghoulish hours every time.
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