Microquake rocks Culver City

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Story Created: Mar 7, 2010 at 8:38 PM PST

Story Updated: Mar 7, 2010 at 8:38 PM PST

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CULVER CITY -- A microquake with an estimated magnitude of 2.2 struck the Baldwin Hills and Culver City at 8:33 p.m. Saturday, seismologists said Sunday.
  
More than 100 people signed on to the USGS Web site to report feeling the temblor at 8:33 p.m. Most of them were in the area along La Cienega Boulevard between the Santa Monica (10) Freeway and Century Boulevard.
  
Automated sensors placed the epicenter one mile east of downtown Culver City. That area includes the northern-most trace of the Newport-Inglewood fault, which killed 120 people in the 6.2 magnitude Long Beach earthquake of 1933.

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