A pair of small earthquakes rattled the Los Angeles basin Sunday.
The first quake, a magnitude 1.8 temblor, hit at 11:09 a.m. Its epicenter was estimated to be 7 miles below the ground's surface, between Van Nuys and Panorama City.
The second quake was at 11:15 a.m., when a magnitude 2.8 tremor struck in the San Pedro Channel, about halfway between Catalina Island and the Palos Verde Peninsula mainland. Its exact epicenter was 20 miles southwest of Long Beach and 15 miles north of Avalon.
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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.
-- City News Service
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