Magnitude 2.9 Earthquake, Epicenter in Naples Area -- Very Near Newport-Inglewood Fault -- Jolts SE LB and ELB

LBReport.com

News

Magnitude 2.9 Earthquake, Epicenter in Belmont Shore/Naples Area -- Not Far From Newport-Inglewood Fault -- Jolts SE LB and ELB

Hear LBREPORT.com phoner with CalTech staff seismologist Dr. Jennifer Andrews

LBREPORT.com is reader and advertiser supported. Support independent news in LB similar to the way people support NPR and PBS stations. We're not non-profit so it's not tax deductible but $49.95 (less than an annual dollar a week) helps keep us online.

Paid Political Content
Attention Long Beach, Signal Hill, San Pedro & Catalina:

Hear MARTHA FLORES GIBSON on why she'll do a better job than the politician now in the Sac'to Assembly.
For alternate video links:
Windows/Android, click here
Apple/iPhone, click here

Paid for by Martha Flores Gibson for Assembly 2016 (Dist.70)
State ID # 1387345

For information on LBREPORT.com political advertising availabilities, email us at: mail@lbreport.com

(Oct. 6, 2016, 4:40 p.m. UPDATED from breaking on our front page) -- A magntiude 2.9 earthquake with an epicenter in the Belmont Shore/Naples area (USGS map indicates Appian Way near Bay Shore Dr.) -- roughly 1 km (0.62 miles) from the surface trace of the Newport-Inglewood Fault -- was felt throughout much of SE and East Long Beach this afternoon.

Source: USGS website

[Scroll down for further below.]

USGS says the quake occurred at 1:54:49 p.m. at a depth of 14.5 km (about 9 miles deep.) It was felt as a sharp one or two jolts in SE LB and ELB. USGS revised the temblor's initial magnitude up from 2.7 to a final determined magnitude of 2.9.

LBREPORT.com confirmed with CalTech Staff Seismologist Dr. Jennifer Andrews that the epicenter was roughly 1 km of (about 0.62 miles) from the map surface trace of Newport-Inglewood Fault (that generated the damaging 1933 Long Beach earthquake) BUT Dr. Andrews says this afternoon's quake was too small for any positive or accurate confirmation or association. She adds that the Newport-Inglewood fault, like all So. Cal faults, are constantly active.

Dr. Andrews confirmed that there's a standard roughly 5% chance this afternoon's quake could be a foreshock of a larger quake coming in hours immediately following the initial quake but said the chance (with such a small quake) likely diminishes rapidly with time.

TO HEAR LBREPORT.com's phoner with CalTech Staff Seismologist Dr. Jennifer Andrews, click here.