BRIEFLY : 3.3 AFTERSHOCK JOLTS SAN FERNANDO VALLEY.A mild earthquake, an aftershock af·ter·shock n. 1. A quake of lesser magnitude, usually one of a series, following a large earthquake in the same area. 2. of the 1994 Northridge temblor, rocked the San Fernando Valley San Fernando Valley Valley, southern California, U.S. Northwest of central Los Angeles, the valley is bounded by the San Gabriel, Santa Susana, and Santa Monica mountains and the Simi Hills. on Wednesday and was felt as far away as downtown. There were no reports of damage or injury, police Officer Eddy Zelaya said. The magnitude-3.3 quake struck at 1:46 p.m. and was centered one mile east-northeast of San Fernando, about 20 miles north of downtown Los Angeles Downtown Los Angeles is the central business district of Los Angeles, California, located close to the geographic center of the metropolitan area. The sprawling, multi-centered megacity is such that its downtown core is often considered just another district like Hollywood or , said seismologist seis·mol·o·gy n. The geophysical science of earthquakes and the mechanical properties of the earth. seis Kate Hutton of the California Institute of Technology California Institute of Technology, at Pasadena, Calif.; originally for men, became coeducational in 1970; founded 1891 as Throop Polytechnic Institute; called Throop College of Technology, 1913–20. in Pasadena. Hutton said the quake was an aftershock to the magnitude-6.7 Northridge Earthquake on Jan. 17, 1994. That quake killed 57 people and caused billions of dollars in property damage. - Associated Press Dad, mom, aunt face charges in slayings A man who allegedly killed two of his children and forced their siblings to bury them in the Angeles National Forest The Angeles National Forest (ANF) was established by executive order on December 20, 1892 as the San Gabriel Timberland Reserve. It covers over 2,600 km² (650,000 acres) and is located in the San Gabriel Mountains of Los Angeles County, just north of the metropolitan area of Los was ordered Wednesday to stand trial on murder charges, and their mother and aunt face accessory charges. Van Nuys Municipal Court Judge Lloyd Nash made the ruling after a three-day hearing on the evidence against Marco Esquivel Barragon, 35; the children's mother, Petra Barrera, 35; and her sister, Juana Barrera, 28. The three are due to enter pleas to the charges Sept. 9 in San Fernando Superior Court. The body of 5-year-old Ernesto Barrera was found in a shallow grave in March, and the body of 18-month-old Guadalupe Esquivel was found about three months later. - City News Service Man draws jail time for laser scope use A Pacoima man was sentenced to 30 days in jail after becoming the first person in Los Angeles to be convicted of violating a 1992 law against using laser scopes in a menacing manner, it was announced Wednesday. Hugo Alex Ponce, 20, was given the maximum penalty by Van Nuys Municipal Court Commissioner Martin Green, said City Attorney's Office spokesman Mike Qualls. Ponce pleaded no contest to one count of ``illegally using a laser scope in a manner causing a reasonable person apprehension and fear of bodily harm,'' Qualls said. - City News Service Prop. 227 meeting for parents on tap VAN NUYS - Parents of bilingual education students can attend an informational meeting on Proposition 227 today at Grant High School. The four-hour meeting begins at 8 a.m. in the multipurpose room of the school at 13000 Oxnard St. in Van Nuys. The workshop is one in a series hosted by the Los Angeles Unified School District The Los Angeles Unified School District (the "LAUSD") is the largest (in terms of number of students) public school system in California and the second-largest in the United States. Only the New York City Department of Education has a larger student population. . Proposition 227, passed in June by 61 percent of California voters, requires students with limited English skills to enroll in one-year immersion classes unless granted a waiver. - Daily News 2 typhus typhus, any of a group of infectious diseases caused by microorganisms classified between bacteria and viruses, known as rickettsias. Typhus diseases are characterized by high fever and an early onset of rash and headache. cases near Echo Park reported Two cases of endemic typhus endemic typhus n. See murine typhus. - a disease usually transmitted to humans by fleas from rats, opossums or other animals - occurred near Echo Park this year, county health officials said Wednesday. The victims, a 9-year-old girl and a 34-year-old man, both recovered, said Roshan Reporter, a doctor at the county Department of Health Services' Acute Communicable Disease communicable disease n. A disease that is transmitted through direct contact with an infected individual or indirectly through a vector. Also called contagious disease. Control Unit. ``Endemic typhus, also called murine typhus, is not directly contagious from person to person,'' Reporter said. ``It's characterized by fever, headache, muscle ache and rash, and is treatable with antibiotics.'' Areas in the county where people should be careful are Sierra Madre, Monrovia, Altadena, Glendale, Pasadena, South Pasadena, Silver Lake, Echo Park, Los Feliz, Mount Washington and Eagle Rock, said Frank Hall, chief of the county's Vector Management Program. - City News Service |
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