A magnitude 3.1 earthquake with an epicenter near Hemet was recorded Wednesday night, but there were no reports of injuries or damage. The epicenter of the 11:51 p.m. quake was 0.9 miles northwest of Hemet, 2.5 miles southwest of San Jacinto, 2.9 miles west northwest of East Hemet and 5.3 miles west of Valle Vista, […]
LOS ANGELES (CNS) – A magnitude 4.2 earthquake jolted Los Angeles early today, followed by at least two aftershocks, the second measuring 3.9, the U.S. Geological Survey reported. The main temblor struck at 4:29 a.m. at a depth of 4.3 miles, its epicenter 1.4 miles north of the city of San Fernando, according to the U.S.G.S. […]
(CNN) — A 5.7 magnitude earthquake shook Utah’s Salt Lake City area Wednesday morning, cutting power to tens of thousands and suspending work at the state’s public health lab amid the coronavirus pandemic, officials said. Flights to Salt Lake International Airport were being diverted, departures were postponed, and terminals and concourses were evacuated so engineers […]
A magnitude 4.2 earthquake that shook the California desert Monday was centered about 10 miles south of Twentynine Palms in Riverside County, just south of the San Bernardino County line, according to the United States Geological Survey. The 9:26 a.m. temblor, which was initially reported at a magnitude of 4.4 before being downgraded to a […]
Dr. Lucy Jones, seismologist with the US Geological Survey, warned residents that they should expect to see many more quakes — and there’s a chance of another damaging one today. At a news conference, she explained that we might be seeing two different faults in today’s earthquake. A magnitude 6-4 earthquake was felt throughout the […]
Scientists are monitoring a swarm of dozens of small earthquakes that have been recorded in recent days in Sun Valley north of Reno, along with a larger quake earlier this month south of Reno. A sequence of 60 earthquakes that began in Sun Valley early Wednesday were too small to be felt, said Graham Kent, a geophysicist […]
