{"id":308631,"date":"2026-05-10T06:32:23","date_gmt":"2026-05-10T06:32:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/308631\/"},"modified":"2026-05-10T06:32:23","modified_gmt":"2026-05-10T06:32:23","slug":"4-5-magnitude-earthquake-among-several-quakes-that-shook-southern-california","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/308631\/","title":{"rendered":"4.5-magnitude earthquake among several quakes that shook Southern California"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tSeveral earthquakes shook Southern California on Saturday evening, the largest being a magnitude 4.5 quake, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.The quakes were centered near Brawley in Imperial County, north of the southern border with Mexico. A 3.5-magnitude quake hit around 4:15 p.m. It was followed by six more small quakes until a 4.4. quake hit around 7:22 p.m. The 4.5-magnitude quake struck at 8:39 p.m., about 20 minutes after a 4.0 quake in the area. The USGS said a ShakeAlert was sent out to people in the area. See a quake tracker below.\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Several earthquakes shook Southern California on Saturday evening, the largest being a magnitude 4.5 quake, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.<\/p>\n<p>The quakes were centered near Brawley in Imperial County, north of the southern border with Mexico. <\/p>\n<p>A 3.5-magnitude quake hit around 4:15 p.m. It was followed by six more small quakes until a 4.4. quake hit around 7:22 p.m. <\/p>\n<p>The 4.5-magnitude quake struck at 8:39 p.m., about 20 minutes after a 4.0 quake in the area. <\/p>\n<p>The USGS said a ShakeAlert was sent out to people in the area. <\/p>\n<p>\n\tThis content is imported from Twitter.<br \/>\n\tYou may be able to find the same content in another format, or you may be able to find more information, at their web site.\n<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Update: The magnitude of this earthquake has been updated to magnitude 4.5.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 USGS ShakeAlert (@USGS_ShakeAlert) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/USGS_ShakeAlert\/status\/2053325715685466166?ref_src=twsrc^tfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">May 10, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>See a quake tracker below. <\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Several earthquakes shook Southern California on Saturday evening, the largest being a magnitude 4.5 quake, according to the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":308632,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[599,10293,7,9,8,2949,12925,2457,482,224,8952,73605,129668,12536,129669,1009,8955,8953],"class_list":["post-308631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-area","tag-brawley","tag-california","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-news","tag-earthquake","tag-imperial-county","tag-mexico","tag-north","tag-p-m","tag-quake","tag-saturday-evening","tag-several-quake","tag-shakealert","tag-southern-border","tag-southern-california","tag-u-s-geological-survey","tag-usgs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308631","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=308631"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308631\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/308632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=308631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=308631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=308631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}