A magnitude 4.3 tremor shook Los Angeles in the early hours of Thursday morning. Significant ground shaking was felt in the California city after the earthquake around 2 am local time.

The US Geological Survey said the quake occurred near the town of Trona. The state alert system was activated by the tremors, they added.

The USGS tweeted: “Good morning Southern California. Did you feel the magnitude 4.3 earthquake south of Trona at 2:23 am?

“The #ShakeAlert system has been activated.”

One Twitter user responded: “Yes I felt it!

“I’m in Littlerock and was sitting on my bed reading when I felt a strong shake from west to east, at the same time my west wall made a slight creaking/settlement sound!”

Meteorologist Zach Covey tweeted: “A 4.3 magnitude earthquake has hit California, with the shaking felt in downtown Los Angeles. “No damage has been reported from this earthquake, but this is a significant size earthquake for California.”

There were more reactions to the earthquake online with one Twitter user writing: “When an earthquake strikes in Los Angeles and you know you won’t get any more sleep before the alarm goes off at 6am #earthquake.”

Another added: “Did you feel that? I was finally falling asleep and the earth shook.” On average, Los Angeles experiences five earthquakes each year, which vary in magnitude and destruction. Los Angeles is located on the Ring of Fire fault along with other California cities like San Francisco.

It runs up the western coast of the Americas, across the Pacific and up through New Zealand, Indonesia and Japan, the countries most prone to devastating earthquakes. Experts say that California is due another great apocalyptic tremor, which they have already called “The Big One”. It will be on par with the 7.8 earthquake that centered on San Francisco in 1906. The city was nearly leveled and an estimated 3,000 people were killed.

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