{"id":189779,"date":"2026-02-23T08:58:27","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T08:58:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/189779\/"},"modified":"2026-02-23T08:58:27","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T08:58:27","slug":"magnitude-3-6-earthquake-strikes-near-maricopa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/189779\/","title":{"rendered":"Magnitude 3.6 Earthquake strikes near Maricopa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MARICOPA, Calif. (KERO) \u2014 An earthquake could be felt throughout western Kern County on Wednesday evening.<\/p>\n<p>According to the <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/earthquake.usgs.gov\/earthquakes\/eventpage\/ci41288688\/executive\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">United States Geological Survey (USGS) website<\/a>, A 3.6 magnitude earthquake struck 12.4 miles northeast of Maricopa on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n<p>It was reported at 8:53 p.m. Its depth was reported at 13.4 kilometers.<\/p>\n<p>There were no immediate reports of any damage.<\/p>\n<p>The USGS encourages those who felt the quake to report it <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/earthquake.usgs.gov\/earthquakes\/eventpage\/ci41288688\/dyfi\/intensity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MARICOPA, Calif. (KERO) \u2014 An earthquake could be felt throughout western Kern County on Wednesday evening. According to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":189780,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152,2949],"class_list":["post-189779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield-headlines","tag-bakersfield-news","tag-earthquake"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189779","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=189779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189779\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/189780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}