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4.4-magnitude earthquake jolts Los Angeles with epicenter near South Pasadena, Highland Park: “We felt it immediately”
A preliminary 4.4-magnitude earthquake struck about 2.5 miles south of the Los Angeles neighborhood of Highland Park Monday, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.
It was reported at about 12:20 p.m. and felt throughout L.A. County in areas including Pasadena and Studio City. USGS initially reported the earthquake as a 4.6-magnitude temblor, later updating it to a 4.4 magnitude. There was another quake in the area in June, which had its epicenter in South Pasadena and was felt in areas such as Los Feliz and Long Beach.
LA goes into earthquake mode
The Los Angeles Fire Department is sending crews to check for potential damage to buildings. All 106 LAFD fire stations take part in the damage inspections performed as the city goes into earthquake mode.
At about 1 p.m., LAFD spokeswoman Margaret Stewart said the department was nearly done with those inspections, which also involve air and marine efforts, and no damage had been reported so far. She said she felt the quake at the LAFD headquarters.
“We felt it immediately,” Stewart said.
LA Metro said earlier it was slowing down trains so that the tracks across the countywide transit system can be checked for damage but later said it was resuming regular service as no damage was found.
South Pasadena Police Chief Brian Solinsky said around 1:10 p.m. that there had been no reports of injuries or damage. But he said the intensity of the shaking could have left some slight damage, explaining that the retrofitting of buildings may be partially why the city’s infrastructure held up so well.
“This one easily could have broken some windows,” Solinsky said.
Seismologists at The California Institute of Technology, Caltech, said they felt shaking at the Pasadena campus.
Last week, a 5.2-magnitude earthquake near Bakersfield rattled the Southern California region, with shaking felt throughout parts of Kern, Ventura and Los Angeles counties.
In the following two days, there were more than 400 tremors within 10 miles of the quake’s epicenter, which USC seismologist John Vidale said could all be considered aftershocks since that area doesn’t usually have much seismic activity.
What fault was the earthquake on?
Seismologist Dr. Lucy Jones said there have been other earthquakes on the same fault as Monday’s quake.
“This area has a network of varied faults, so it’s not something that shows up on the same surface,” Jones said. “The same network was involved in the 1987 Whittier Narrows quake, but exactly whether it’s the same strand, because it’s complicated and at depth, we’ll never be able to say. But it is the same system as the Whittier Narrows.”
That earthquake struck the southern San Gabriel Valley in 1987 and resulted in 200 injuries and at least three deaths.
Caltech seismologists also said the quake was along the Elysian Park Fault.
Check back for updates to this developing story.
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Yellowstone hiker burned when she falls into scalding water near Old Faithful, park officials say
Yellowstone National Park, Wyo. — A New Hampshire woman suffered severe burns on her leg after hiking off-trail in Yellowstone National Park and falling into scalding water in a thermal area near the Old Faithful geyser, park officials said.
The 60-year-old woman from Windsor, New Hampshire, along with her husband and their leashed dog were walking off a designated trail near the Mallard Lake Trailhead on Monday afternoon when she broke through a thin crust over the water and suffered second- and third-degree burns to her lower leg, park officials said. Her husband and the dog weren’t injured.
The woman was flown to Eastern Idaho Regional Medical Center in Idaho Falls, Idaho for treatment.
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Park visitors are reminded to stay on boardwalks and trails in hydrothermal areas and exercise extreme caution. The ground in those areas is fragile and thin and there’s scalding water just below the surface, park officials said.
Pets are allowed in limited, developed areas of Yellowstone park but are prohibited on boardwalks, hiking trails, in the backcountry and in thermal areas.
The incident is under investigation. The woman’s name wasn’t made public.
This is the first known thermal injury in Yellowstone in 2024, park officials said in a statement. The park had recorded 3.5 million visitors through August this year.
Hot springs have injured and killed more people in Yellowstone National Park than any other natural feature, the National Park Service said. At least 22 people have died from hot spring-related injuries in and around the 3,471-square-mile national park since 1890, park officials have said.
TRENTON, N.J. — Democratic Newark City Council President LaMonica McIver has defeated Republican small businessman Carmen Bucco in a contest in New Jersey’s 10th Congressional District that opened up because of the death of Rep. Donald Payne Jr. in April.
McIver will serve out the remainder of Payne’s term, which ends in January. She and Bucco will face a rematch on the November ballot for the full term.
McIver said in a statement Wednesday that she stands on the “shoulders of giants,” naming Payne as chief among them.
She cast ahead to the November election, saying the right to make reproductive health choices was on the ballot as well as whether the economy should benefit the wealthy or “hard working Americans.”
“I will fight because the purpose of politics and the purpose of our vote is to give the people of our communities and our nation a bold voice,” she said.
Bucco congratulated McIver on the victory in a statement but said he’s looking forward to the rematch in November.
“I am not going anywhere,” he said in an email. “We still have a second chance to make district 10 great again!”
Who are LaMonica McIver and Carmen Bucco?
McIver emerged as the Democratic candidate in a crowded field in the July special election. A member of the city council of New Jersey’s biggest city since 2018, she also worked for Montclair Public Schools as a personnel director and plans to focus on affordability, infrastructure, abortion rights and “protecting our democracy,” she told The Associated Press earlier this summer.
Bucco describes himself on his campaign website as a small-business owner influenced by his upbringing in the foster system. He lists support for law enforcement and ending corruption as top issues.
The 10th District lies in a heavily Democratic and majority-Black region of northern New Jersey. Republicans are outnumbered by more than 6 to 1.
It’s been a volatile year for Democrats in New Jersey, where the party dominates state government and the congressional delegation.
Among the developments were the conviction on federal bribery charges of U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez, who has denied the charges, and the demise of the so-called county party line — a system in which local political leaders give their preferred candidates favorable position on the primary ballot.
Democratic Rep. Andy Kim, who’s running for Menendez’s seat, and other Democrats brought a federal lawsuit challenging the practice as part of his campaign to oust Menendez, who has resigned since his conviction.
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