3.6 earthquake rattles Palm Springs [Updated]

A magnitude 3.6 earthquake Saturday rattled the Palm Springs area, but there were no reports of damage or injuries.

[Updated at 8:15 p.m.: The temblor occurred about 7 a.m., four miles east-southeast of Cabazon. (An earlier version of this post incorrectly stated that it occurred 10 miles northwest and four miles northeast of Cabazon.) ]

The U.S. Geological Survey said it was felt over a large swath of the Palm Springs area as well as in other parts of the Inland Empire and Orange County.

The quake was first measured as 3.7, but was then downgraded.

It's unclear if the quake is related to several other temblors that have occurred in that region since the 7.2 Mexicali quake on Easter Sunday. The Mexicali quake, experts said, put pressure on two other fault lines that run through the Inland Empire.

-- Shelby Grad

Comments

[save the deserts!]

hmmm. how can something be "10 miles northwest and four miles northeast of Cabazon" at the same time?

[Logan]

Sounds pretty close to the San Andreas fault... Not good.

[Jones Burrow]

Earthquake "experts" have never been able to predict an earthquake and never will. For all we know the planet is really settling down and cooling down inside becoming more solid. These so called experts are obviously out to save their job first and foremost by looking useful when really they are useless. Now that I double think it, "expert" in this country are the phoniest of them all. They usually get their "expert" license in some 48 hour "training". In a court of a law, you can not word against an "expert" unless you also have an "expert" on your side, you can not even speculate against an "expert". YOU"VE all been bamboozled by your own kind for well over a decade now.

[Thotseed]

Well when John Doe Public says a 8.5+ is due within weeks near Wrightwood will you listen to that person? yes, you can predict quakes with some certainty. Just not the certainty we wish like oh it's hitting at 4:45 this afternoon. But we can guess within a year or two correctly from patterns. The patterns recently are unmistakeable. Wrightwood is stirring and it's going to pop near Riverside first about 7.0 within a week or so and then within a month or two Wrightwood will shake with 8.5+. Why higher than the last time (est 7.7)? Because last time the stress built up only for 127 years before it popped and this time it's nearly 200 years (last popper Dec 1812). So it' going to be .5 to 1.0 higher on the ritcher scale. Even a child can figure this out! USGS doesn't want us to know the truth as they don't want to prepicitate a mass migration out of LA which would decrease the value of THEIR properties in the area. That's why they are lying to us.

[mark]

Someone needs to come up with a very sound disaster preparedness site for all those who will be left homeless when a big quake hits LA. No one is really prepared.

[DP in PS]

I think y'all need to read this morning's LA Times. The USGS, FRONT PAGE, said an 8.0 or better was iminent on the San Andreas immediately. The average time between these "big" 7-8)quakes along the San Andreas is 82 years....the last one was in 1857, we are looooong over due.

No one's lying about this, what would be the purpose? I think they are giving us the right news as now wanting to be pointed at when it hits and they said nothing but had the info all the time.

No need to panic, what good would it do? No one's going anywhere, who's got the money? No use panicking, just get your earthquake preparedness kits together, one at work, one in the car, one at home. DO IT NOW. If you have pets, don't forget to provide for them in your kits. What to put in them? Go on line, Google: Earthquake Preparedness kits you'll find everything you need to know.

Oh yeah, did I say, DO IT NOW.

[nancy cochran]

10 miles NW of Palm Springs, 4 miles NW of Cabazon, thus in between the two cities, duh!