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Slight Earthquake Off Long Beach Today
This morning's quake registered at a slight 2.1 by seismologists and centered 13 miles away in the Catalina (ocean) channel.
A small earthquake 13 miles south-southwest of Long Beach rattled mostly - and barely -- San Pedro today, according to preliminary reports from automated seismographs.
The magnitude 2.1 wiggle hit at 2:30 a.m. and its epicenter was in the Catalina Channel, the body of water between the mainland and Santa Catalina Island about 25 miles offshore, City News Service reported.
It was centered about 9 miles south-southeast of Rolling Hills and 13 miles south-southwest of downtown Long Beach. No one logged on to the United States Geological Survey's (USGC) quake reporting service website to report that they felt it.
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-- With City News Service reporting.
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