Moderate Earthquake hits Los Angeles

A moderate earthquake was reported on Friday night on a sparsely populated area in the Mojave Desert. The earthquake was felt from Los Angeles to San Diego. Sources say that there wasn’t much damage or casualties.

Ludlow, Calif. --
A moderate earthquake struck a sparsely populated area of the Mojave Desert on Friday night and could be felt from Southern California to the fringes of Nevada and Arizona.

The 5.1-magnitude temblor struck at 8:18 p.m. just outside Ludlow near Interstate 40 in San Bernardino County, about 120 miles east of Los Angeles, the U.S. Geological Survey said. The initial reports measured the quake at 5.5-magnitude.
"The ground was rolling underneath but it was very light. Nothing," said Jeremy Chestnut, 20, who works at a Dairy Queen in Ludlow. "I was standing in front of an ice cream machine and it makes the ground shake, too."
The quake is the second one above a magnitude-5.0 to hit Southern California this year. In July, a magnitude-5.4 quake centered in the hills east of Los Angeles was the strongest to rattle a populated area of Southern California since the 1994 Northridge disaster.
In the town of Yermo, about 20 miles from Ludlow, a dozen people in Lee's Tavern didn't seem too concerned when the bottles began to rattle.