“It felt like the end of the world,” said Michael Dennis, who was inside a Torrance Starbucks when the magnitude-4.7 earthquake rumbled through the South Bay on Sunday evening. “First it started to rumble, then the glass started coming down and everyone started running to the exits and not very many of them made it out.” (Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times)
The display window of Blue Ribbon Drapery in north Long Beach was shattered in the quake. (Lawrence K. Ho / Los Angeles Times)
Long Beach firefighters clean up broken glass on the street in front of Blue Ribbon Drapery. (Lawrence K. Ho / Los Angeles Times)
No major damage was reported from the magnitude 4.7 earthquake centered in Lennox, but some windows broke near the epicenter. (Lawrence K. Ho / Los Angeles Times)
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Police tape off the entry of a Starbucks in Torrance where the earthquake caused a pane of glass (top left) to fall and shatter. One person reportedly was injured and taken to a hospital. (Jay L. Clendenin / Los Angeles Times)
Employees at a Starbucks on Hawthorne and Artesia boulevards were cleaning up shattered glass following the earthquake Sunday evening. (Jay L. Clendenin / Los Angeles Times)