Early Tuesday AM 4.2 Quake Latest In Series of Tremors to Hit California
Ayinde O. Chase - AHN Staff
Los Angeles, CA (AHN) -Californians face earthquakes and tremors throughout Monday afternoon and early Tuesday morning. Residents of San Bernardino County were rocked early Tuesday morning by a magnitude 4.2 earthquake. According to authorities tremors were felt thought out the region.
The quake occurred at 1:53 am and according to the U.S. Geological Survey was centered about three miles north of Wrightwood, a remote community about 80 miles northwest of Los Angeles. Despite its 4.2 measurement people as far north in Glendale a suburb of Los Angeles felt the quake while callers from Pasadena also reported shaking.
Bonnie Curtis, a dispatch supervisor with the San Bernardino County Fire Department, said there were no immediate reports of damage or injuries. On Monday afternoon a magnitude-3.1 earthquake, preceded by two smaller tremors, rattled the Hemet area. However, there were no reports of damage or injuries.
According to the U.S. Geological Survey, the largest of the quakes measuring 3.1 struck at 2:34 pm. and was centered four miles southeast of Valle Vista and eight miles east-southeast of Hemet. According to the USGS the first quake, which had a magnitude of 1.9, occurred at 1:55 pm, followed by a magnitude-2.8 shaker at 2:30 p.m.
"We did not feel or hear a thing here," said Jody Hagemann, a Perris-based spokeswoman for the Riverside County Fire Department.
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