Natural disaster: 4.3-magnitude quake shakes Inland Empire

“It shifted!” Quakes in U.S. states The Vancouver-area quake comes six hours after a minor natural disaster hit the San Bernardino County area of California that the U.S. Geological Survey reported was a magnitude of 4.4.

There were no injuries or damage but power was for a time knocked out to some 4,500 homes in the region.

By early evening, the USGS reported five more earthquakes in the Edmond area, including a 3.2-magnitude quake about 3:40 p.m.

The Vancouver Mayor’s office says there have been no reports of any major damage in the city, with no power outages either.

The quake came near the intersection of the San Jacinto, San Andreas and Cucamonga faults, three of the largest in Southern California, but it was too small to determine which fault was responsible, the USGS said.

The epicenter of Tuesday’s quake was located just outside a previously implemented “cutback zone”, where disposal well operators were directed in July to reduce the amount of volume they inject, Oklahoma Corporation Commission spokesman Matt Skinner said. Zook said the earthquake’s depth means aftershocks are unlikely.

This man was one of man who felt the quake.

Tuesday’s quake doesn’t suggest anything about when “The Big One” will strike, Cassidy added, but it should still serve as a reminder for families to get prepared. “It woke up the whole neighborhood”.

“I felt a huge tremor; it bounced me side to side”, Hector Girr, of Port Angeles, told the TV station.

Residents of British Columbia’s South Coast were jolted awake shortly before midnight by a moderately strong quake centered near the provincial capital of Victoria.

The seismic event was originally classified as a magnitude 4.9 event by the U.S. Geological Survey, but it was downgraded shortly after.

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