Small earthquake hits Beverly Hills Monday

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The U.S. Geo­log­i­cal Sur­vey is report­ing an earth­quake early Mon­day in the greater Los Ange­les area.

The magnitude-3.3 quake was cen­tered in Bev­erly Hills at 3:26 a.m.

There are no imme­di­ate reports of damage.

Bev­erly Hills police watch com­man­der Sgt. Michael Pub­licker said his sta­tion has been get­ting numer­ous calls from anx­ious cit­i­zens. He said, “Every alarm in the city is going off.” But he added that his patrol offi­cers had seen no signs of struc­tural damage.

An offi­cer at the nearby West Los Ange­les police precinct said there had been no calls about the quake.

The Los Ange­les Fire Depart­ment says its sur­vey found no sig­nif­i­cant dam­age, injury or loss of life in the city.

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