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"A magnitude 5.1 earthquake struck suburban Los Angeles on Friday, rattling a wide swathe of southern California. Geologists say the tremor was shallow, at a depth of only 1.2 miles. There were no reports of injury or substantial structural damage from the quake, which was centred outside the city of La Habra, about 20 miles east of downtown LA"

An earthquake has been strongly felt near Los Angeles, California, rattling nerves but so far causing no major damage, injury or deaths. The 4.4-magnitude quake struck 9km (5.6 miles) from the Los Angeles neighbourhood of Westwood. It hit at 06:25 local time (13:25 GMT), US officials said. It was the strongest earthquake in Los Angeles since the last aftershocks from the 1994 Northridge quake, a government scientist said.