A magnitude 3.5 earthquake was reported Sunday night about a half mile from View-Park Windsor Hills in South Los Angeles, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.
The temblor occurred at 9:17 p.m. Pacific time and occurred at a depth of 6 miles, according to the USGS.
Although tremors were felt across large swaths of Southern California, the epicenter was located inside the boundaries of the Kenneth Hahn State Recreation Area, about eight miles west of downtown Los Angeles.
The area around Baldwin Hills is also the site of oil fields -- leaving some to speculate on social media that the earthquake owed to heavy drilling in the area.
But Dr. Lucy Jones, a USGS seismologist, wrote on Twitter that the quake occurred near the Newport-Inglewood fault and at a depth "way below the oil fields."
"The focal mechanism matches the Newport Inglewood fault which was producing [earthquakes] long before we were pumping oil," Jones wrote.
The epicenter was about 2,000 feet from that of a magnitude 2.5 earthquake that was reported at 4:35 p.m., making the smaller quake a foreshock that typically precedes larger seismic activity.
In response, the Los Angeles Fire Department went into earthquake mode, with firefighters sending out teams to survey for possible damage across the city.
As of 9:25 p.m., no damage was reported on account of the earthquake, said LAFD spokesman Shawn Lenske.
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