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Twin Earthquakes Shook San Bernardino, California
On Monday morning, two earthquakes shook San Bernardino, California.
According to the U.S. Geological Survey, the first earthquake struck the region at 9.44 am local time with a preliminary magnitude of 3.5, while the second one struck at 9.48 am with a magnitude of 3.0.
The two earthquakes occurred around three miles northeast of San Bernardino and reached depths of over four miles.
There were no early reports of damage.
Riverside, Victorville, Hesperia, Ontario, and San Bernardino all felt the effects of the 3.5 earthquake.
One X user commented, “Felt both!” Residents in Inglewood, Redondo Beach, Palm Springs, Huntington Beach, and north San Diego County also reported experiencing them.
“Yup felt that one…another day in California,” wrote another.
According to the USGS Felt Report, over 230 persons reported feeling shaky.
Others claimed that because California is accustomed to stronger tremors, they felt no quakes at all.
“Hell, I’m IN San Bernardino – and I needed social media to tell me there was an earthquake,” a person said on X.
“No, did not feel it. And I’m in that area,” another said on Facebook.
California saw four earthquakes in a 24-hour period in January.
The San Andreas fault, the unstable border between the Pacific and North American plates, is where the four earthquakes happened. It stretches 800 miles along the California coast.
According to scientists, a major earthquake of magnitude 8 or greater is due to strike the West Coast along the San Andreas fault.
The seismic activity came after a catastrophic run of wildfires in Southern California that started on January 7, though no damage or injuries were reported.
The probability of producing a high-magnitude earthquake in the upcoming decades is almost comparable for the southern and northern portions of the San Andreas fault.
According to the Great California Shakeout, the “Big One” would have a magnitude of 8.0 or higher, resulting in about 1,800 fatalities, 50,000 injuries, and $200 billion in damage.
Experts are “fairly confident that there could be a pretty large earthquake at some point in the next 30 years,” Angie Lux, project scientist for Earthquake Early Warning at the Berkeley Seismology Lab, told DailyMail.com.
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