Dog wakes up from 4.4-mag Los Angeles earthquake

Earthquake And everyone sort of just stood still. It was a good one. For the second time in a week, Southern California rattled by an earthquake. The shaking was strong enough to cause a water leak at Pasadena City Hall, and it was felt as far away as San Diego. Welcome, everyone, to the Fox 11 news at 5:00 simulcast on our sister station Fox 11. Plus, I'm Marla Tellez here for Christine Devine, and I'm Alex Michaelson. That magnitude 4.4 quake struck near Highland Park during the lunch hour. No major damage reported as you would expect for a quake of that size, but certainly a lot of rattled nerves. Fox Eleven's Hailey Winslow she joins us now live from Pasadena, where, as mentioned, that pipe broke Hailey. Yes, Marlon. Alex Crews did repair the pipe and reopen City Hall, but there was a bit of panic felt all over. Southern California followed by that piercing alert that 370,000 of us got on our phones, warning to drop, cover and hold on. Just a huge jolt to the house. It was a quick but super scary. Georgie. Yeah, that was a big it felt like the big one. Like the kitchen was moving and we went under the table. Though only a 4.4 magnitude earthquake, it seemed much stronger. Centered near LA's Highland Park just after noon Monday, many southern Californians report it sounded like a freight train with a rattle and rumble felt far and wide and lasting way too long. Yeah, it felt like a couple of seconds, maybe a three second, a big jolt, and then maybe 2 to 3 seconds of little after jolting and yeah, entire homes shake pictures fall, people rattled. Literally. I was asleep, it woke me up. I thought it was actually the big one. Sleeping soundly. It surely scares little Winston, the dog in Paramount. And check out the shaking on our Santa Monica cam of the pier at Pasadena City Hall. A pipe bursts and a woman gets trapped in the elevator. She was trapped in there, but she got out safely from our wonderful firemen who are used to coming to that elevator if needed. This is my first quake and seismology. It's a big day. Seismology. Students at Caltech, some frightened at first, quickly get back to business, sizing up this earthquake. So what does it all mean? Well here's LA's quake expert, Lucy Jones. There's a lot of people on top of this earthquake. Fundamentally, if you know the other earthquakes you've been feeling and saying, oh, I don't usually feel a four or it's small and a four, that's because you were farther away. This is very much the populatio. And it's only a matter of time before we get a big one. So it is important to have an earthquake kit in your house. This one's in my car. It comes with food, water, a survival blanket, a light stick and a, what is this one? A first aid kit? So it's important to have those enough for two people to survive. Several days in case of an emergency. So luckily, not a whole lot of damage from this one. And no one injured. But it definitely rattled us in more ways than one. Reporting live here in Pasadena, I'm Hailey Winslow, Fox 11 news. So Haley, did you feel it? Yes. So we were my photographer, Sam Dubin, who brought you that earthquake coverage this afternoon live here in Pasadena. When it was happening, we were in Inglewood covering Doctor Dre's opening of the school, and we were in the library with about 50 people in the middle of the press conference when we all got that alert. Sam didn't feel it, but I definitely did the Earth completely shook, and a lot of people kind of let out a little bit of a scream and ran for cover. You got the alert, you didn't feel it right. Just like Sam sounds like. And I did feel it. And I grew up in California, but no matter what, I still get rattled. Each and every time. All right, Haley, thank you. Depth Thank you so much. Meteorologist Jonathan Novak with more on the earthquake. Yeah. You know, a couple of the elements here or the factors or aspects of the earthquake or any earthquake really determine how you're going to feel it, how far away you'll feel it. And one of those things is the depth of the earthquake. This one relatively shallow. You can see our, our, our data here on our computer system can show you it's about seven miles in depth. Now, the shallower the earthquake, the aftershocks less it has to cover in terms of distance to reach you. If it's deeper as it travels further and further, it loses that energy. So shallower earthquakes, you're going to feel further away and you can see here in terms of any aftershocks, our system on the loop mode. Now you can see that there were several since about noon when this happened, but not that many, not like we saw to the north of us last week. But weather that's a good thing. Of course, as this earthquake, again right near the Highland Park area, again, a magnitude 4.4. As for our local weather, we're going to take a look at our forecast coming up in a little while outro because we do have some temperatures to talk about. We'll discuss that in just a few minutes. For now, we'll toss it back to you. Marla. All right. Jonathan thank you so much. Our coverage continues