Magnitude 2.8 earthquake reported in View Park-Windsor Hills

A map showing the epicenter of an earthquake.
A map showing the approximate epicenter of Tuesday morning's magnitude 2.8 earthquake. (Quakebot)

A magnitude 2.8 earthquake was reported Tuesday at 8:19 a.m. Pacific time in Los Angeles' View Park-Windsor Hills neighborhood, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.

The earthquake's epicenter was 7.1 miles beneath the intersection of Overland Drive and Northridge Drive, near Windsor Hills Elementary School. .

In the last 10 days, there have been no earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater centered nearby.

An average of 59 earthquakes with magnitudes between 2.0 and 3.0 occur per year in the Greater Los Angeles area, according to a recent three-year data sample.

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