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| Strong quake felt in Los Angeles | Strong quake felt in Los Angeles |
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| A strong earthquake has been felt in the US city of Los Angeles. | A strong earthquake has been felt in the US city of Los Angeles. |
| The quake made buildings in the city shake and was felt as far south as San Diego, witnesses say, but so far there are no reports of casualties or damage. | The quake made buildings in the city shake and was felt as far south as San Diego, witnesses say, but so far there are no reports of casualties or damage. |
| The US Geological Survey said the tremor had a magnitude of 5.4, after earlier measures of 5.6 and 5.8. | |
| The epicentre of the quake was 29 miles (46km) south-east of central Los Angeles, near Chino Hills in San Bernardino County, officials said. | |
| "It was dramatic. The whole building moved and it lasted for a while," said Los Angeles County sheriff's spokesman Steve Whitmore, who was in the sheriff's Monterey Park offices east of Los Angeles. | |
| There have been no reports of power cuts in the area, although telephone services were disrupted because of a surge in demand on the network, witnesses reported. | |
| More than 20 aftershocks were reported following the quake, the strongest measured at 3.8. | |
| In 1994, a 6.7 magnitude earthquake in Northridge, California, killed 72 people, injured another 9,000 and caused $25bn (£12.5bn) worth of damage in the area. | |
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