Southern California homeowners are rattled after a magnitude-4.7 earthquake.
On Thursday morning, Southern California experienced a magnitude-4.7 earthquake. According to the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), the earthquake occurred around 7:28 a.m., shaking the area around Malibu.
Residents from surrounding areas, including Agoura, Agoura Hills, Westlake Village, Picture City, Thousand Oaks, Oak Park, Calabasas, Simi Valley, Moorpark, Camarillo, Santa Monica, Oxnard and Beverly Hills were the cities that felt the shaking.
Reports from this earthquake
“Heard a loud boom like an underground explosion then felt the rolling shake. I was hanging on to a chain link fence, and that was moving, and that’s how I could tell it was still going.”
“The earthquake was very obvious. I was in my bedroom, nothing fell off the walls, but I could see the furniture moving, and it lasted for an estimated 30 seconds. It started like an Aftershock and then began to get stronger and then slowly diminished and got weaker.”
A homeowner in Lake Elsinore states:
“Laying down in bed, watching YouTube videos on my phone. I felt a shake and saw that my disco ball was moving. My disco ball only moves when there’s an earthquake.”
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Did you know that your homeowner insurance policy does not cover earthquake damage?
Given the risk, now is the time to consider how earthquake insurance will provide the protection you don’t get from your homeowners insurance policy:
- According to a recent three-year data sample, an average of five earthquakes with magnitudes between 5.0 and 6.0 occur yearly in California.
- The probability of an earthquake measuring magnitude 6.7 in the next 30 years is 60% in the Los Angeles area and 72% in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Your home equity continues to grow while the risk of a devastating earthquake increases, too. Are you prepared to lose all of your hard-earned equity in an instant? And if you experience a total loss, can you afford to rebuild? Now (not afterward) is the right time to consider your Earthquake Insurance options.
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