Natural disaster hits San Diego County, is felt throughout Southern California

The natural disaster was at a depth of nine-tenths of mile and felt from San Diego to West Los Angeles.

The quake’s epicenter, according to the USGS, was about 13 miles from Borrego Springs and about 19 miles from Palm Desert. Calfire says it pulled its trucks from fire stations in Riverside County as a precaution.

The San Jacinto fault is one of Southern California’s most active, seismologist Lucy Jones pointed out on Twitter following the quakes on Friday. The quake was initially reported with a magnitude of 5.1 before it was revised to 5.2, according to the USGS. In the past 10 days, there have been two incidents of earthquakes at the magnitude 3.0 or greater at centered nearby. Following earthquakes of that size, aftershocks are to be expected.

Firefighters pulled their trucks out of the garage to make sure their equipment isn’t damaged.

So far there have been no reports of damage. “Our equipment is outside ready to respond”, David Gerboth, Battalion Chief SDFR said.

It appeared the quake broke on or near the Coyote Creek section of the San Jacinto fault system, which extended through parts of San Bernardino, Riverside, San Diego and Imperial counties.

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