3.2 Earthquake Occurs Beneath LAX Runway
A magnitude 3.2 earthquake occurred directly beneath a main runway at Los Angeles International Airport at 9:14 p.m., but does not appear to have caused enough shaking to disrupt operations. The LAX flight status site says that planes are continuing to land. (Click here to check the status of flights.) The quake began 11.2 miles below the earth’s surface, which is fairly deep for an earthquake in Southern California. The quake appears to have started on the northern end of the Newport Inglewood-Rose Canyon fault, which tracks south into Seal Beach and Huntington Beach before running offshore at Newport Beach. Tonight’s quake happened close to the epicenter of a 4.7 quake that occurred in mid-May, and it produced isolated shaking in Seal Beach, Garden Grove and Placentia, says the U.S. Geological Survey.
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