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A small quake聽rattled a community just outside of Los Angeles early Sunday morning, shaking buildings and聽waking residents.

According to the United States Geological Survey, at聽just after 4 a.m. local time,聽a聽magnitude 3.8 earthquake聽struck聽the View Park-Windsor Hills area, with an epicenter about聽9 miles from downtown Los Angeles. The USGS classified the quake, which聽had a depth of 7.5 miles, as "light."

No one reported any damage to the Los Angeles Fire Department, notes the Los Angeles Times. But聽some residents were concerned that hydraulic fracking factored into the quake on the聽Newport-Inglewood fault, which runs through the area. 聽

聽Dr. Lucy Jones of California Institute of Technology, told the LA Times that the quake聽occurred far below the level聽tremors normally caused by fracking. She took to Twitter to allay dispel concerns.聽

According to the USGS "Did You Feel It?" survey, tremors from the quake could be felt throughout the entire LA basin, as well as farther east.

This earthquake is the second to hit the area in less than a month. A magnitude 3.5聽聽quake hit near the same spot back on April 12, according to the USGS. There was also minimal damage reported following that quake, according to KTLA-TV.聽

The strongest seismic event of the day was the聽magnitude 4.2聽聽earthquake that struck Michigan, according to the USGS.聽There was no reported damage聽from聽that quake聽either, even though tremors could be felt as far away as Toldeo, Ohio, and South Bend, Ind.

Some media outlets had stated the Los Angeles earthquake was magnitude聽3.9, which was what the USGS had originally reported. It was not until after the quake that the agency聽downgraded it back to 3.8.聽