CALIFORNIA BRIEFING / LOS ANGELES
A minor earthquake rattled the Westside early Friday evening.
The magnitude 3.4 shaker, which struck at 7:42 p.m., was centered on the coast at Marina del Rey.
The Los Angeles Fire Department said it had no reports of damage or injury.
“It was a simple, short whomp,” said Susan Hough, scientist in charge at the U.S. Geological Survey’s Pasadena office.
“You’re going to have to be pretty close to feel it,” she said. “I didn’t feel it in Pasadena at all.”
The Geological Survey tabulated the heaviest cluster of reports from Venice, West Los Angeles, Santa Monica and Marina del Rey.
The quake may or may not have been connected to a 3.1 quake that occurred on Thursday about 15 miles to the north, near Northridge, according to Hough.
-- Howard Blume
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