
The earthquake struck at 9:52 p.m., with an epicenter simply east of Newland Elementary Faculty. Based on the U.S. Geological Survey, there was mild shaking on the epicenter as outlined by the Modified Mercalli Depth Scale, with the shaking intense sufficient to be felt indoors by many — feeling maybe like a heavy truck hanging a constructing.
“That was loopy. … Our constructing felt like a semi truck bumped into it,” one person wrote on the social media platform X, previously often called Twitter.
No important injury had been reported as of late Friday night time.
Mild shaking was additionally felt in Newport Seashore, Costa Mesa, Fountain Valley and Backyard Grove, the USGS mentioned.
Huntington Seashore sits throughout the Newport-Inglewood fault zone, which extends on land for some 46 miles between Culver Metropolis and Newport Seashore.
Essentially the most damaging earthquake to hit the realm in trendy occasions was a magnitude 6.4 that hit in 1933. Sometimes called the Lengthy Seashore earthquake, its epicenter was truly simply offshore of Huntington Seashore and ruptured about 9 miles of fault, all beneath the floor.
That earthquake resulted in a minimum of 120 deaths, the deadliest in trendy Southern California historical past.
Individuals who stay close to the realm of the earthquake can report what they felt to the USGS.