A magnitude 4.9 earthquake shook Riverside County on Monday evening, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The earthquake was centered seven miles from Indio. It occurred at a depth of 1.87 miles.<\/p>\n
A spokesperson for the Riverside County Fire Department said there were no immediate reports of damage.<\/p>\n
The temblor was quickly followed by several aftershocks, at magnitudes 3.3, 3.4 and 2.9, according to the USGS. The quake had an estimated intensity of V on the modified Mercalli intensity scale<\/a>, which signifies moderate shaking \u2014 strong enough to overturn unstable objects and break windows.<\/p>\n The earthquake occurred 10 miles from Coachella, 11 miles from Palm Desert and La Quinta, and 13 miles from Rancho Mirage, Calif. The USGS logged public reports<\/a> of those who felt the quake as far away as San Diego, 92 miles from the epicenter. <\/p>\n The quake was described by a Joshua Tree resident as causing \u201cswaying like a boat.\u201d A north San Diego County resident said rumbling from the temblor lasted about 15 seconds.<\/p>\n In a brief phone interview, a worker at Unique Bite Eatery in Indio appeared nonplussed and said there was no damage at the restaurant.<\/p>\n In the last 10 days, there have been four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater centered nearby.<\/p>\n 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.<\/p>\n Did you feel this earthquake? Consider reporting what you felt<\/a> to the USGS.<\/p>\n Find out what to do before, and during, an earthquake near you by signing up for our Unshaken newsletter<\/a>, which breaks down emergency preparedness into bite-sized steps over six weeks. Learn more about earthquake kits, which apps you need, Lucy Jones\u2019 most important advice and more at latimes.com\/Unshaken<\/a>.<\/p>\n This story was automatically generated by Quakebot, a computer application that monitors the latest earthquakes detected by the USGS. A Times editor reviewed the post before it was published. If you\u2019re interested in learning more about the system, visit our list of frequently asked questions<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A magnitude 4.9 earthquake shook Riverside County on Monday evening, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The earthquake…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":140915,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[7,21495,3047,31682,2949,21497,48,52,51,23155,36270,47,50,49,4465,2663,22579,21498,612,36268,8953],"class_list":["post-140914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-california","tag-coachella","tag-com","tag-depth","tag-earthquake","tag-indio","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-la-quinta","tag-latime","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-magnitude","tag-mile","tag-palm-desert","tag-rancho-mirage","tag-riverside-county","tag-unshaken-newsletter","tag-usgs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140914","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=140914"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140914\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/140915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}