Southern California Hit by Three Earthquakes in a Single Day

Southern California was hit by three earthquakes on Monday, in accordance with knowledge logged by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS).

At 11:19 p.m. final evening, a magnitude 3.5 tremor was recorded roughly eight miles from Morongo Valley, San Bernardino County, going down at a depth of 4 miles.

According to the USGS knowledge, a magnitude 3.4 tremor hit San Bernardino County east of Los Angeles at 1:28 a.m. on Monday, putting near town of Loma Linda. Shortly after, recorded at 2:56 a.m., a magnitude 3.6 earthquake was felt on the Mojave Desert close to the Kern County metropolis of Ridgecrest, initially putting near Little Lake.

There had been no stories of accidents or harm because of the earthquakes, in accordance with ABC7. Still, the 2 similarly-sized earthquakes earlier Monday morning sparked social media feedback from some California residents who stated they felt the impacts.

“I was already half asleep playing Sims then I felt the earthquake now I’m fully awake,” one Twitter person famous in a put up that was appreciated greater than 100 instances.

Others took a relaxed strategy to stories concerning the tremors. “It’s weird to live in a place where frequent, tiny earthquakes are normal. California keeps you on your toes!” tweeted Danielle Crespo. Another particular person stated: “You know you’re from California when ‘earthquake’ is trending yet no one you know in real life [has] mentioned it.”

Its bizarre to dwell in a spot the place frequent, tiny earthquakes are regular. California retains you in your toes! 🤷🏻‍♀️

— Danielle Crespo (@Danielle_Crespo) November 17, 2020

You know you are from California when “earthquake” is trending but nobody you recognize in actual life talked about it.

— heidi ‘blue-footed booby’ kling (@HeidiRKling) November 16, 2020

Some California residents in nearer proximity to the Morongo Valley quake shared their experiences to the European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre (EMSC).

“Heard it more than we felt it. Very light movement but the sound it made, confirmed it was coming from deep underground,” stated one particular person based mostly in Banning, roughly 13 miles southwest from the epicenter. An individual in Desert Hot Springs, 14 miles south of the epicenter, described it as being “an abrupt shake lasting about two seconds.”

By most accounts, the later Morongo Valley quake was pretty tame. “One little shake but made me realize that it was an earthquake,” famous an individual about 17 miles away.

Magnitude is a measure of an earthquake’s dimension. Experts from Michigan Tech have stated that quakes between magnitude 2.5 and magnitude 5.4 are sometimes felt, nonetheless they usually solely trigger minor harm.

In comparability, quakes between 6.1 and 6.9 could cause important harm to populated areas, whereas quakes of greater than magnitude 7.0 are thought of to be main.

“An earthquake is what happens when two blocks of the earth suddenly slip past one another,” the USGS says. “The surface where they slip is called the fault. The location below the earth’s surface where the earthquake starts is called the hypocenter, and the location directly above it on the surface of the earth is called the epicenter.”

As reported, each the San Bernardino County and Mojave Desert are discovered alongside the San Andreas Fault, an 800-mile area recognized for its turbulent tectonic exercise. It varieties the tectonic boundary between the Pacific Plate and the North American Plate.

According to the USGS, the biggest historic earthquakes that occurred alongside the San Andreas fault had been in 1857 and 1906, with the latter, estimated at a magnitude 8.3, claiming 700 lives and inflicting thousands and thousands of {dollars} price of harm within the state.