4.1 earthquake rattles Westlake Village area, shaking felt across SoCal

WESTLAKE VILLAGE, Calif. (KABC) -- A preliminary magnitude 4.1 earthquake struck the Westlake Village area Sunday afternoon, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.

The quake hit just after 1 p.m. at a depth of around seven miles. It originally registered as a 4.4 quake.

Shortly after that temblor, the Malibu area experienced a few small quakes with magnitudes of 2.5, 3.0 and 2.8.

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No damage or injuries were immediately reported.

People reported feeling the shaking in Canoga Park, Simi Valley, Lomita and as far away as La Verne and Montebello.

In an interview with ABC7, seismologist Lucy Jones noted that a magnitude 4.1 quake "isn't a problem for anybody, right? It causes a lot of shaking and maybe some fear but not any damage. And that seems to be what we're seeing in the sequence over the last year.

"And I know you ask, 'What does it mean?' And if we knew what it meant, we'd be in a whole different place than we are," Jones said. "At this point, we can say is, it means that we're having a lot of earthquakes in this area. And when you have a lot of earthquakes, you tend to have a lot of earthquakes."

DEVELOPING: We will add more details to this report as they become available.