Parts of California were hit by more than a dozen earthquakes overnight, with 13 shaking the state during a span of just 25 minutes.
“Good morning Southern California! Did you feel the magnitude 4.8 earthquake about two miles north-west of El Centro at 12.36am? The #ShakeAlert system was activated,” the United States Geological Survey Shake Alert account posted on X.
El Centro is a city in the Imperial Valley in the southern California border region. The rattling continued until 1.01am, when the 13th quake of the series that began less than a half hour earlier was recorded.
“It has been a busy night to our east,” the National Weather Service’s San Diego office posted on X. “Several small earthquakes have occurred in El Centro in the past 15 minutes. A couple of them were felt at our office. As of 12.53am there have been 13!”
Officials said the USGS’s Shake Alert system estimated at least one of the earthquakes registered a magnitude above 5.0, triggering alerts to cell phones.
The rapid cluster of earthquakes came two days after a 4.6 magnitude earthquake hit several miles north-west of Malibu on Friday. Authorities said no major damage or injuries had been reported.
Dr Lucy Jones, a California quake expert known as “the Beyoncé of Earthquakes”, told the news station KTLA that there was a 5% chance of a larger earthquake in southern California soon after. But it would not be connected to a larger, 5.7 magnitude temblor that shook the Big Island of Hawaii hours earlier on Friday.
4.8 magnitude earthquake among over a dozen shakes registered in Southern California overnight
Emily DeLetter
Nearly 20 earthquakes rocked parts of Southern California within a short time overnight, according to data from the United States Geological Survey.
The first earthquake was at 12:36 a.m. PST Sunday, and happened just northwest of El Centro, California. It measured a 4.8 magnitude, according to the earthquake tracker from the USGS.
From there, earthquakes continued around El Centro and Imperial, two cities located east of San Diego and close to the Mexico border. The National Weather Service office in San Diego noted the earthquakes, posting on X that there were 13 tremors as of 12:53 a.m., and some had been felt at the office.
Here's where the other earthquakes in California were measured as of 5 a.m. PST Monday:
- 12:38 a.m. PST: 3.6 magnitude less than one mile southwest of Imperial
- 12:39 a.m. PST: 3.7 magnitude 2.5 miles northwest of El Centro
- 12:39 a.m. PST: 3.5 magnitude less than one mile north of El Centro
- 12:40 a.m. PST: 3.1 magnitude 0 miles northwest of El Centro
- 12:41 a.m. PST: 3.0 magnitude 1.9 miles south of Imperial
- 12:41 a.m. PST: 2.6 magnitude 2.5 miles south of Imperial
- 12:42 a.m. PST: 4.5 magnitude 1.2 miles northwest of El Centro
- 12:43 a.m. PST: 2.5 magnitude 13.7 miles south-southwest of Furnace Creek
- 12:43 a.m. PST: 3.5 magnitude 1.2 miles east-southeast of El Centro
- 12:45 a.m. PST: 2.7 magnitude 1.2 miles north of El Centro
- 12:59 a.m. PST: 3.9 magnitude 1.2 miles west-northwest of El Centro
- 1:01 a.m. PST: 2.7 magnitude 1.9 miles north-northwest of El Centro
- 1:26 a.m. PST: 2.5 magnitude 1.9 miles northwest of El Centro
- 1:30 a.m. PST: 2.8 magnitude 1.2 miles northwest of El Centro
- 2:18 a.m. PST: 3.6 magnitude 0 miles east-southeast of El Centro
- 2:25 a.m. PST: 2.7 magnitude 1.9 miles southwest of Imperial
- 3:03 a.m. PST: 2.6 magnitude less than a mile east of El Centro
- 3:33 a.m. PST: 3.0 magnitude 1.9 miles north-northwest of El Centro
Only one earthquake was measured in Furnace Creek, California, located in the Death Valley region and about 390 miles north of El Centro.
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