Just after 4AM local time this morning, a minor quake measuring 4.4 on the Richter scale hit “a large swath” of Southern California.

The quake was centered about ten miles east of downtown Los Angeles. Little damage was reported, but recent, high-profile seismic activity and larger quakes in Haiti and Chile had some residents feeling a little unnerved by the incident.

Commenters on ABC’s Los Angeles affiliate KABC reported feeling the earthquake in several of the surrounding towns.

“The earthquake knocked me out of bed,” one Arcadia poster wrote. “It was pretty scary!!! I ran out from house and it was so cold outside and I stayed in car like 10 min, after I got back home I couldn’t sleep.”

Geophysicist Jessica Sigala of the United States Geological Survey said the minor quake was no cause for alarm:

“With a 4.4 here, we probably wouldn’t see substantial damage, just a lot of shaking,” Sigala said, adding that the quake was hard enough probably just to knock books off shelves and maybe break windows.

The area may see some aftershocks, she said, but they will likely be smaller than the initial earthquake.

No damage, injuries or threats to local infrastructure have been reported in the wake of this morning’s earthquake.

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A 3.2 earthquake with an epicenter 18 km (11.2 miles) below the Los Angeles International Airport rattled surrounding areas Monday evening (July 13) at 9:14pm local time.

There are no reports of damage although officials at the airport did inspect the runway as a precaution.

Twitter users noted that the earthquake lasted for around 5 seconds and was not dissimilar to a large truck driving past. The quake was felt in the general Los Angeles area as far as Long Beach to the South and Santa Monica to the North.

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A 4.5 magnitude earthquake shook Los Angeles and surrounding areas at 7:50pm local time Thursday.

The quake was centered about a mile south of San Bernardino, and was felt across Los Angeles, San Pedro and Orange County.

There were no reports of damage or injuries.

Experts claim that Los Angeles is due for a large quake after a long stretch of relative quietness. A 5.4 quake shook Los Angeles is July 2008, the largest quake in 14 years.

More if we have it.

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A mild earthquake shook South California Friday night local time.

The 5.1 magnitude quake was felt across Southern California and in to parts of Nevada and Arizona. The quake epicenter was outside Ludlow on Interstate 40 in San Bernardino County, about 120 miles east of Los Angeles.

The quake is the second one above a magnitude-5.0 to hit Southern California this year following a 5.3 quake in July.

At the time of writing there were no reports of damage, although emergency services did receive a number of calls, most from people wanting to confirm the quake.

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