The epicenter of Wednesday's magnitude 2.6 earthquake was close to the mapped traces of the Newport-Inglewood/Rose Canyon fault system.
Areas farther from the epicenter, from the Palos Verdes Peninsula to the Westside, felt Intensity 2 to Intensity 3 shaking, or light shaking.
because it runs under some of the region's most densely populated areas, which stretches from the border of Beverly Hills and Los Angeles through Long Beach and the Orange County coast to downtown San Diego. Scientists had believed the Newport-Inglewood fault ruptured in a major earthquake once every 2,300 years on average; latest results suggest that a major earthquake could come once every 700 years on average. The study was based on new evidence of temblors on the fault centuries ago
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