{"id":309461,"date":"2026-05-10T22:02:15","date_gmt":"2026-05-10T22:02:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/309461\/"},"modified":"2026-05-10T22:02:15","modified_gmt":"2026-05-10T22:02:15","slug":"earthquake-swarm-shakes-imperial-county-magnitude-4-7-quake-reported","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/309461\/","title":{"rendered":"Earthquake swarm shakes Imperial County: Magnitude 4.7 quake reported"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A swarm of earthquakes shook Imperial County this weekend, with dozens of quakes, ranging in magnitude from 2.5 to 4.7, rattling the region around Brawley, south of the Salton Sea.<\/p>\n<p>The most intense earthquake reached a magnitude of 4.7 shortly after midnight in the early morning Sunday, according to the <a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/earthquake.usgs.gov\/earthquakes\/map\/?currentFeatureId=ci41461608&amp;extent=32.85681,-475.65582&amp;extent=33.05616,-475.42339&amp;sort=largest&amp;listOnlyShown=true\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">United States Geological Survey<\/a>. The quakes continued through the morning, with a 2.7-magnitude earthquake reported a little after 7 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>No injuries were reported. About 180,000 people experienced light to strong shaking, according to the USGS.<\/p>\n<p>The city of Crowley said it has <a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.brawley-ca.gov\/assets\/citymanager\/press-releases\/press-release---brawley-activates-eoc-following-continued-earthquake-activity.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">activated<\/a> its Emergency Operations Center, but there have been no reports of significant damage. Residents were encouraged to do a walk-through of their property, looking for potential damage from water or gas leaks.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCommunity safety remains the City\u2019s highest priority,\u201d the city said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>The first quake was reported at 4:14 p.m. Saturday with a magnitude of 3.5.<\/p>\n<p>Cal OES said Sunday morning they were coordinating with local partners and continuing \u201cto assess developments to help keep Californians safe.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A swarm of earthquakes shook Imperial County this weekend, with dozens of quakes, ranging in magnitude from 2.5&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":309462,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[2640,1409,2041,4544,129955,56789,12547,129957,12925,48,52,51,47,50,49,4465,129956,8952,47954,646,2695],"class_list":["post-309461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-a-m","tag-city","tag-community-safety","tag-dozen","tag-early-morning-sunday","tag-earthquake-swarm","tag-gas-leak","tag-high-priority","tag-imperial-county","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-magnitude","tag-potential-damage","tag-quake","tag-significant-damage","tag-water","tag-weekend"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309461","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=309461"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309461\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/309462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=309461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=309461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}