Moderate quake rolls through Central California

A moderate earthquake jolted a remote area of Central California today, according to the National Earthquake Information Center of the U.S. Geological Survey.

It struck at roughly 3:50 p.m. about seven miles southeast of the small town of Keelerin unincorporated Inyo County, and registered a 4.7 magnitude, said Dale Grant, a Colorado-based geophysicist for the agency. 

"There were no reports of damage or injury, but there were reports of it being felt," Grant said. 

--Ann M. Simmons

Map: USGS

Comments

[Shawdog]

Keeler, which is on the eastern edge of Owens Dry Lake, is hardly part of "Central" California. It's east of the Sierra Nevada. That's "eastern" California if it's anything.

That area has had some enormous earthquakes in the past. A huge earthquake in the mid-1800's pretty much leveled the nearby town of Lone Pine and put a still-visible 15 foot scarp on the western edge of the Owens Valley where it contacts the eastern side of the Sierra Nevada.