California hit by small earthquake
Long Beach and nearby areas of southern California were today shaken by a small earthquake.
The US Geological Survey said a tremor with a preliminary magnitude of 3.8 occurred at a depth of about 13 miles beneath the port city on the south Los Angeles County coast.
Port of Long Beach spokesman John Pope said were was no indication of any damage to the harbour.
The quake came a day after a modest tremor hit a sparsely populated area east of San Diego.
That magnitude-4.6 quake struck about nine miles north of Ocotillo, near the seismically active California-Mexico border.
There were no reports of damage from yesterday’s tremor.
