"A shallow 4.5-magnitude earthquake shook inland sections of Southern California Wednesday morning. Landslides were reported near the epicenter after heavy rainfall soaked the region Tuesday.
According to the U.S. Geological Survey, the quake struck at 6:42 a.m. PST just north of Banning, a city of 30,000 in the San Gorgonio Pass along Interstate 10 between San Bernardino and Palm Springs.
The quake was shallow, occurring 10.4 miles (16.7 kilometers) below the ground. The USGS originally estimated the focal depth as an even shallower 1 mile (1.6 km). Shallow earthquakes generally produce stronger ground shaking near the epicenter than do deeper earthquakes of the same magnitude.
According to incident reports on the California Highway Patrol's website, landslides were reported just minutes after the earthquake along State Highway 243 just south of Banning. Mud and small rocks were strewn across sections of the roadway about 7 miles from the earthquake's epicenter.
Another CHP report indicated a tree and large boulders across the roadway on State Highway 74 near the mountain community of Pinyon Pines, about 15 miles south of Palm Springs. That incident was about 40 miles southeast of the epicenter." - news report
We were on a conference call with our Banning facility when this hit. Our facility shook a little as well, but you could certainly tell they got the worst of it. No injuries, but it scared the crap out of folks.
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