{"id":140912,"date":"2026-01-20T02:54:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T02:54:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/140912\/"},"modified":"2026-01-20T02:54:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T02:54:07","slug":"magnitude-4-9-earthquake-near-palm-desert-shakes-parts-of-san-diego-county-san-diego-union-tribune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/140912\/","title":{"rendered":"Magnitude 4.9 earthquake near Palm Desert shakes parts of San Diego County \u2013 San Diego Union-Tribune"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A magnitude 4.9 earthquake occurred at 5:56 p.m. Monday about 17 miles northeast of Palm Desert in Riverside County, producing shaking that was felt throughout San Diego County, the U.S. Geological Survey said.<\/p>\n<p>The quake broke near the San Andreas fault, an 800-mile-long system, part of which extends through the Cajon Pass area and Coachella Valley and into the Salton Sea.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe periodically have quakes of this size, and they rarely lead to something bigger,\u201d said Tom Rockwell, a seismologist at San Diego State University. \u201cBut 5% of the time, they do give us something bigger.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe haven\u2019t had a big quake on the San Andreas for 300 years. The interval time for one is about 150 years.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A magnitude 4.9 earthquake occurred at 5:56 p.m. Monday about 17 miles northeast of Palm Desert in Riverside&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":140913,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[181,23,100,74,76,75,645,1696],"class_list":{"0":"post-140912","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-diego","8":"tag-latest-headlines","9":"tag-local-news","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-san-diego","12":"tag-san-diego-headlines","13":"tag-san-diego-news","14":"tag-science","15":"tag-top-stories-sdut"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140912","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140912"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140912\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/140913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}