{"id":402662,"date":"2026-07-17T20:51:36","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T20:51:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/402662\/"},"modified":"2026-07-17T20:51:36","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T20:51:36","slug":"4-3-magnitude-earthquake-shakes-near-johannesburg-usgs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/402662\/","title":{"rendered":"4.3 magnitude earthquake shakes near Johannesburg: USGS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 A <a href=\"https:\/\/earthquake.usgs.gov\/earthquakes\/eventpage\/ci41292687\/executive\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">4.3 magnitude earthquake<\/a> struck near Johannesburg in eastern Kern County Monday morning.<\/p>\n<p>According to the United States Geological Survey (USGS) website, the earthquake was reported at around 9:40 a.m. on Monday, July 13.<\/p>\n<p>Its depth was reported at 7.6 kilometers, said USGS.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"A 4.3 magnitude earthquake struck near Johannesburg in eastern Kern County Monday morning. PHOTO: USGS\" class=\"ImageEmbed_image__qZBo_\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"364\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/4486fb8c-96ad-4642-990d-d1e17170b3f8-Screenshot20260713110653.jpg\" width=\"648\"\/><\/p>\n<p>A 4.3 magnitude earthquake struck near Johannesburg in eastern Kern County Monday morning. PHOTO: USGS<\/p>\n<p>It comes as an <a href=\"https:\/\/bakersfieldnow.com\/news\/local\/early-morning-earthquake-wakes-residents-near-frazier-park-felt-in-kern-county-and-beyond-bakersfield-california-safety-shakealert\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">earthquake struck Frazier Park<\/a> early Sunday morning. <\/p>\n<p>SEE ALSO: <a href=\"https:\/\/bakersfieldnow.com\/news\/local\/early-morning-earthquake-wakes-residents-near-frazier-park-felt-in-kern-county-and-beyond-bakersfield-california-safety-shakealert\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Early morning earthquake wakes residents near Frazier Park, felt in Kern County and beyond<\/a><\/p>\n<p>According to USGS, the earthquake struck at 3:38 a.m. and was initially reported as a magnitude 4.4 before seismologists revised it down to a 4.1 after additional data was analyzed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 A 4.3 magnitude earthquake struck near Johannesburg in eastern Kern County Monday morning. According&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":402663,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":["post-402662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield-headlines","tag-bakersfield-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402662","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=402662"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402662\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/402663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=402662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=402662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=402662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}