{"id":309841,"date":"2026-05-11T04:49:28","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T04:49:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/309841\/"},"modified":"2026-05-11T04:49:28","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T04:49:28","slug":"san-diego-free-from-damage-after-imperial-valley-quake-swarm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/309841\/","title":{"rendered":"San Diego free from damage after Imperial Valley quake &#8216;swarm&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>No damage was reported in San Diego County after a \u201cseismic swarm\u201d of earthquakes rocked neighboring Imperial Valley this weekend.<\/p>\n<p>More than 360 minor earthquakes were reported in and around the Imperial County city of Brawley between the Salton Sea and the Mexican Border beginning at around 4 a.m. Saturday and continuing until late afternoon Sunday, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usgs.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">U.S. Geological Survey<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The strongest one, registering at magnitude-4.7 shortly after midnight, was still considered a light quake. The others ranged between micro, minor and slight, according to the USGS.<\/p>\n<p>Geology Professor Emeritus Pat Abbott of San Diego State University told City News Service that a swarm like this is not unusual.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese earthquake swarms happen here every few years,\u201d Abbott said. \u201cThe swarm will not spread. No damages or injuries are expected to occur.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Abbott also said he expects the swam to continue for the next few days, \u201cbut historically they do not lead to a big earthquake.\u201d The swarm is not occurring on fault lines per se, according to Abbott, but rather represents \u201chundreds of little movements within the Brawley Seismic Zone.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Lt. Joe Barry, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sdsheriff.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">San Diego County Sheriff\u2019s Office<\/a> watch commander on duty Sunday, told City News Service that there have been no calls to his office regarding the earthquakes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"No damage was reported in San Diego County after a \u201cseismic swarm\u201d of earthquakes rocked neighboring Imperial Valley&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":309842,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[24807,74,76,75],"class_list":["post-309841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-imperial-valley","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309841","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=309841"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309841\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/309842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=309841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=309841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}