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 Los Angeles rocked by 5.8 magnitude quake ...
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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 (Ј12.5bn) worth of damage in the area.
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