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The quake was
shallow at only 3.5 miles (5 km) below the earth's surface and
was centered two miles northwest of Devore, about 50 miles east
of Los Angeles, with smaller aftershocks following shortly
afterwards, according to the USGS.
Quakes are frequent in the area that lies near the intersection
of the San Andreas and San Jacinto faults but the quake startled
some residents nevertheless, local media said.
"It was a good shaker,” Toni Cousino, a waitress at a local
diner, told the San Bernardino County Sun.
The 810-mile San Andreas fault runs roughly north-south through
California.
Nine earthquakes above magnitude 4 have hit the region over the
past decade, the USGS said.
(Reporting by Sandra Maler in Washington and Victoria Cavaliere
in Los Angeles; Editing by Louise Ireland)
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