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17th Mar 2014

VIDEO: News Anchors Jump for Cover as Earthquake Hits on St Patrick’s Day

The earthquake hit the city early this afternoon.

Una Kavanagh

It’s been quite the eventful St Patrick’s Day in LA! An earthquake with a magnitude of 4.4 stuck the city with a least six aftershocks being reported already.

The earthquake stuck almost 10km northwest of Beverly Hills but thankfully there have been no reports of major damage or injury.

Like many news organisations out there, anchors were forced to react to the quake live on air with KTLA’s Chris Schauble and Megan Henderson diving for cover:

According to a seismologist with the U.S. Geological Survey,the earthquake could be a “foreshock” to a larger one.

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