The State : 4.8 Temblor Jars Southland

A magnitude 4.8 earthquake, centered 13 miles northwest of Palm Springs, rocked Southern California from Barstow to Central Los Angeles and from southern Orange County to Kern County, officials said. There were no reports of injuries or damage. “It was pretty heavy down here,” Palm Springs Police Lt. Mike McCabe said. Plate glass windows at the police station bowed and rings around ceiling sprinkler heads fell to the floor, officers said. “It was one heavy jolt,” a Riverside County fire dispatcher said. In Los Angeles, Chris Harris of Hollywood said his typewriter fell off his desk, and pictures were askew after the quake. Hall Daily, a spokesman for the Caltech seismology laboratory in Pasadena, said the temblor was possibly an aftershock of the July, 1986, 5.6 quake that caused extensive damage in the Palm Springs area.