{"id":424219,"date":"2026-08-05T06:00:20","date_gmt":"2026-08-05T06:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/424219\/"},"modified":"2026-08-05T06:00:20","modified_gmt":"2026-08-05T06:00:20","slug":"preliminary-4-2-magnitude-earthquake-reported-in-mendocino-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/424219\/","title":{"rendered":"Preliminary 4.2-magnitude earthquake reported in Mendocino County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/24s0yi6nye2zpfnn.jpg\" alt=\"Earthquake preparedness event in downtown LA\" class=\"sr-only\" data-v-892ef6a8=\"\"\/>  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/24s0yi6nye2zpfnn.jpg\" alt=\"Earthquake preparedness event in downtown LA\" loading=\"eager\" fetchpriority=\"high\" class=\"vod-poster-image\" data-v-611a3d9b=\"\"\/>   <\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">MENDOCINO COUNTY, Calif. &#8211; A preliminary 4.2-magnitude earthquake was reported in Mendocino County, California.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">According to the United States Geological Survey&#8217;s (USGS) website, the earthquake was reported around 5:25 p.m. PT on Tuesday, August 4 about 19.3 miles north-northwest of Covelo, California \u2013 an area around 230 miles northwest of Sacramento \u2013 and 4.7 miles in depth.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">There were no immediate reports of damage or injuries.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">This story was reported from Los Angeles.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: This report used information provided by the United States Geological Survey&#8217;s website.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxla.com\/tag\/weather\/earthquakes\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Earthquakes<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxla.com\/tag\/us\/ca\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">California<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MENDOCINO COUNTY, Calif. &#8211; A preliminary 4.2-magnitude earthquake was reported in Mendocino County, California. According to the United&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":424220,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[1184,3934,48,52,51,47,50,49,100,1181,19],"class_list":["post-424219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-ca","tag-earthquakes","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-news","tag-us","tag-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424219","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=424219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424219\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/424220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=424219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=424219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=424219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}