Magnitude 3.9 earthquake hits Lake Elsinore, latest temblor to rattle Southern California
A magnitude 3.9 earthquake was reported Thursday morning at 9:39 Pacific time in Lake Elsinore, the latest modest temblor to shake Southern California.
The quake was felt over a large area from Los Angeles down to San Diego. No damage was reported in Lake Elsinore, according to Cal Fire.
The earthquake occurred less than a mile from Lakeland Village, two miles from Temescal Valley, six miles from Wildomar and six miles from Canyon Lake.
Southern California has been rattled by several quakes in recent days. On Monday, a 4.4 magnitude temblor near Highland Park hit. Last week, a quake near Bakersfield was widely felt.
Monday’s magnitude 4.4 quake that rattled Southern California is believed to have struck on a well-known and dangerous fault system known as the Puente Hills thrust fault system.
Monday’s earthquake, centered about 1,100 feet southwest of the intersection of Huntington Drive and Eastern Avenue, occurred in the same general area of a pair of earthquakes in early June — a magnitude 3.4 on June 2 and a magnitude 2.8 on June 4, also associated with the Puente Hills thrust fault system. There was also a magnitude 2.9 earthquake in the same area on June 24.
Thursday’s Lake Elsinore quake was centered more than 70 miles to the east.
An average of 25 earthquakes with magnitudes between 4.0 and 5.0 occur per year in California and Nevada, according to a recent three-year data sample.
The earthquake occurred at a depth of 5.6 miles.
Did you feel this earthquake? Consider reporting what you felt to the USGS.
The magnitude 5.2 earthquake near Bakersfield was felt over a wide area of Southern California. Experts say there are several reason for this, including its size, time of night and the so-called ‘basin effect.’
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