Small earthquake shakes Los Angeles area

Per the USGS, a 4.4 magnitude earthquake shook the Los Angeles area Friday evening at 6:11 local time.

Twitterers quickly reported the quake, accounting for 1,095 "earthquake" tweets in 10 minutes. @seanpercival beat everyone to the punch with the first tweet:

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   seanpercival (Los Angeles, Calif.) earthquake 02 May 2009 from web

Here were some of the other first tweets:

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   etokle (Los Angeles, Calif.) Cue up the earthquake tweets. 02 May 2009 from Tweetie
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   nease (Manhattan Beach, Calif.) Just went through my 2nd earthquake on the 16th Story... It was a small one. 02 May 2009 from web
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   mikaelgm (Los Angeles, Calif.) Earthquake. These are becoming troubling. 02 May 2009 from TwitterBerry
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   LearningNerd (Los Angeles, Calif.) Is it just me or was there just an earthquake in Los Angeles? It felt more like a tree fell on my house or something, though. Just checking. 02 May 2009 from web
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   saquinaakanni (Ranchos Palos Verdes, Calif.) anybody feel that... we just had an earthquake - real shaker! 02 May 2009 from web
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   OCPaleocon (Irvine, Calif.) Saw "Earthquake" pop up on my Twitter feed, a second before I felt it. Weird! 02 May 2009 from web
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   antonperez (Los Angeles, Calif.) just experienced an earthquake while at the office. Good thing it wasn't strong. 02 May 2009 from Ping.fm
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   seanjohn81 (Los Angeles, Calif.) yes we had an earthquake and yes i am safe :) (that's mainly for my family cause i know the rest of you don't care) 02 May 2009 from web

Small earthquake shakes Los Angeles area