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A small quake struck off the Palos Verdes Peninsula over the weekend.
A small earthquake struck off the Palos Verdes Peninsula about 11:15 a.m. Sunday.
The magnitude 2.8 tremor struck in the San Pedro Channel, about halfway between Catalina Island and the Palos Verdes Peninsula mainland. Its exact epicenter was 20 miles southwest of Long Beach and 15 miles north of Avalon.
Los Angeles firefighters said there was no report of any new ground movement at the large landslide at Paseo del Mar in San Pedro, where chunks of coastal headlands have slid several hundred feet into the Pacific Ocean over the past two months.
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An earlier quake with a magnitude of 1.8 hit at 11:09 a.m. Its epicenter was estimated to be seven miles below the ground's surface, between Van Nuys and Panorama City.
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—City News Service contributed to this report.
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