The tremors were also felt throughout the northern Los Angeles. The Richter Scale was kept quite busy as it recorded around 100 aftershocks after the major one that was recorded at magnitude 4.5 at the Richter Scale.
According to experts, the current quakes were but aftershocks of the earthquake that shook Southern California in April with its 7.2 magnitude tremors Mexico’s Baja California peninsula that left at least one person dead causing a significant infrastructural damage in the area.
Egill Hauksson, the seismologist at California Institute of Technology said that Monday’s tremor has its epicenter in the same zone as the April quake. He further added that aftershocks can go on for months and even for years. Egill said that
a 5.7 magnitude earthquake can break windows, can topple things on the floor, can create cracks in the walls but it may not collapse the infrastructure.
There is no report of any causality though a minor damage is reported in San Diego and Imperial counties.
Though there was no major loss reported during the Monday night earthquake, it eventually lost few minutes of the game between San Diego Padres against Toronto Blue Jays when tremor jolted the Petco Park.
The Director of the Southern California Earthquake Center, Thomas Jordan has said that Californian Fault has been very active recently, especially the north end of the fault and he added that he does not find the Monday tremor an unusual one.