No damage reported from magnitude 4.4 LA Earthquake
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Southern Californians were jolted from their sleep before dawn Tuesday as a small but strongly felt earthquake struck beneath Los Angeles‘ eastern suburbs.
No damage or injuries were reported, however, and jangled nerves appeared to be the biggest impact of the magnitude-4.4 temblor, which struck at 4:04 a.m.
“It was a rude awakening,” said Amber Szabo, manager of the skin care store Lather in Pasadena.
The quake was centered 10 miles southeast of downtown Los Angeles, 12 miles under the city of Pico Rivera.
In 1987, a fault in that area produced the magnitude-5.9 Whittier Narrows quake that killed eight people and caused more than $350 million in damage. But Tuesday’s quake was likely not an aftershock because too much time has elapsed, said seismologist Kate Hutton at the California Institute of Technology.
Szabo said she and her husband ran out of their home “like crazy people.”
But others, like Vincenzo Moschella, said it happened too fast for his family to duck under their dining room table as planned.
Californa Earthquake
A 4.4 magnitude earthquake shook California early on this morning just east of downtown Los Angeles. There have been no reports of injury or injuries.
“It was a shake, but not bad. Our inmates slept through it and we had a few calls, but not as many as you would think,” (Pico Rivera sheriff’s station Sgt. Jacqueline Sanchez to AP).
Although the quake was considered small, especially than the ones that hit Haiti and Chili, it had been felt over a large area - even people from San Bernandino felt the rumbles.
There is a chance this “small” quake could trigger something bigger inside the coming hours or next few days.
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Not Without Hope
Almost exactly a year ago, four men shoved off on a chilly morning to spend a relaxing Saturday deep-sea fishing about 75 miles off the coast of Clearwater, Fla.
All were finely tuned athletes in their prime. Their powerful bodies were their livelihoods, their personas and their connection — they had trained together and become friends.
Nearly two days after they were expected back home, the invincibility of the modern-day warrior had been stripped to this: Three were dead. The lone survivor was Nick Schuyler, who grew up in Chardon and starred on its high school basketball team.
In “Not Without Hope,” out today, Schuyler writes that he hung on past endurance, haunted by the image of his mother standing over his 24-year-old corpse, laid out in a casket.
“This is the way I remember it,” he writes. “If I get some things wrong, it is due to the frailties of memory and the horror of what I experienced, not any intention to amend or deceive. This is what I recall after being in the water for forty-three hours, frigid and aching and scared, so hungry and thirsty that I felt I was eating my teeth. This is the best I can do after having three friends die, two of them in my arms.”
