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A 4.1 magnitude earthquake shook Southern California on Monday morning and was felt in several areas of Los Angeles, just one day after another tremor of a similar magnitude was recorded early Sunday morning, generating a new day of seismic activity in the region.
Monday's tremor occurred at 9:40 a.m. local time (16:40 GMT) near the community of Johannesburg in Kern County, adjacent to Los Angeles, approximately 200 kilometers east of Bakersfield, according to the United States Geological Survey (USGS).
Los Angeles residents reported having felt the earthquake through the Did You Feel It? page of the USGS.
Authorities have not reported any injuries or material damage following the earthquake.
The event was followed by more than a dozen aftershocks, most of which had magnitudes of 2.4 and 2.2.
The seismic movement occurred just one day after a 4.2 magnitude earthquake shook Southern California early Sunday morning in a mountainous community on the border between Kern and Los Angeles counties.
Several aftershocks of average intensity 2.0 followed this event.
Following the earthquakes with magnitudes greater than 4.0, authorities have highlighted the need to use the earthquake alerts established by California.
On June 23, a 5.6 magnitude earthquake shook Northern California in Mendocino County, a wooded area north of the San Francisco Bay.
Residents of areas as far away as Sacramento, California's capital, reported having felt the tremor, according to information from the USGS.
Although California is known as earthquake country, it records on average fewer earthquakes than places like Japan and New Zealand.
However, California can suffer mega-events like the one that occurred in the south of the state in 1857 and in the north of the state in 1906, both with a magnitude of 7.9.
In 1994, the 6.7 magnitude Northridge earthquake caused the deaths of 60 people and an estimated $40 billion in damages. EFE
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