CHATTER AWAY: Overnight Open Thread

Deadline reports:

A good sized earthquake rattled windows across Los Angeles at about 1:47 p.m. today. Preliminary reports put the temblor at 4.6 on the Richter Scale and have it centered about 7.7 miles southwest of Westlake Village. It was the largest such shake felt in that area in some time.

There was no immediate word of damage or injuries, but the area received about seven inches of rain in the past week, so local landslides may come to light in the coming hours.

Dr. Lucy Jones of the USGS said the shock happened “very close to the Malibu Coast Fault” in “an an area that has had plenty of earthquakes in the past and is well understood to be seismically active.”

Read the full article.

Aftershocks are expected to continue the rest of the day near Malibu after a 4.6 magnitude earthquake hit the area.

About an hour after the initial earthquake, the area saw more than 15 aftershocks.

Get the latest on the quake at https://t.co/lkRTEllfvA pic.twitter.com/sWZAz0kXHX

— ABC7 Eyewitness News (@ABC7) February 9, 2024