It was raining hard in Santa Monica late yesterday afternoon, when many residents felt a short shudder followed by a quick boom and assumed it was thunder. It wasn’t. It was a 3.4 earthquake, whose epicenter was in the ocean about three miles off Manhattan Beach.
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