Hollywood quake is third in two weeks

A shallow magnitude-3.0 earthquake that was centered near Hollywood and shook parts of the Los Angeles basin Saturday morning was the third temblor to hit the area in the last two weeks.

The latest quake occurred at 10:13 a.m. at a depth of 5 miles and was felt from the Westside to East L.A., said Anthony Guarino, a seismologist at Caltech.

Clusters of small quakes are common in the Los Angeles basin, and generally don’t signify that the “big one” is coming, Guarino said.

Every earthquake has a one in five chance of being a foreshock for a larger quake, he added.

The odds of that decline quickly as time goes by.