Nearly after an hour the quake, the California Highway Patrol got reports of a buckled 10-foot stretch of concrete in a center lane of southbound Interstate 5 south of downtown in the Downey area.  Los Angeles Fire Department Capt. Steve Ruda said, "All is calm in the city of Los Angeles".

On Tuesday morning, the  earthquake of 4.4 magnitude jolted millions of people awake and put first-responders on alert. People were scared by the quake and feared many damages due to the high intensity of the tremors. A Los Angeles resident said it shook real hard, I thought the building was coming down. I was on the fourth floor and I got down to the ground.

Recently, major earthquakes struck Haiti and Chile. Many people died in these earthquakes.