A magnitude 5.3 earthquake was reported Thursday afternoon off the coast of California near Los Angeles.

According to the U.S. Geological Survey, the earthquake struck approximately 35 miles southwest of Channel Islands Beach at about 12:30 p.m. local time. No injuries were reported, but residents said they felt the shaking.

It was the largest earthquake to strike the Channel Islands region since a 6.0 temblor in 1981 , Caltech seismologist Egill Hauksson told the Los Angeles Times.

No significant damage was reported, but bricks fell from a chimney at a historic ranch on one of the islands, according to the Associated Press.

Channel Islands National Park spokeswoman Yvonne Menard told AP that the bricks fell Thursday at a ranch building on Santa Cruz Island that dates to the 1860s. Menard says the quake was felt by visitors and staff on the island.

An earthquake early alert system that's being developed in California was able to alert some residents about the tremor about 10 seconds before the shaking began , Southern California Earthquake Center Director John Vidale told KTLA.com.

"It was pretty widely felt across the USC campus," Vidale told KTLA. "We only felt about 3 to 4 seconds, kind of a vibration, kind of long enough for it to sink in that it was an earthquake before it stopped."