Small Quakes Jolt Marina del Rey, Baker Areas
Two earthquakes rattled Southern California late Friday night and Saturday morning.
A magnitude-3.3 temblor struck at 6:24 a.m. Saturday about two miles east of Marina del Rey, according to U.S. Geological Survey seismologist Lucy Jones.
“It sounded like a pop of thunder and the building shook,” said Kristin Wenning, who lives in the area, which is about 10 miles southwest of downtown Los Angeles.
A dispatcher with the Santa Monica Police Department said there were several seconds of shaking but no reports of damage or injuries.
Another small quake hit at 11:28 p.m. Friday, about 30 miles southwest of Baker, Jones said.
The magnitude-3.7 temblor was an aftershock to last year’s Hector Mine earthquake.
A San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department dispatcher said there were no reports of damage or injuries in that quake either.
The 7.1-magnitude Hector Mine quake struck Oct. 16 and has created thousands of small temblors.
Baker is about 155 miles northeast of Los Angeles.
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