3.9 Quake Rattles San Bernardino Range
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SAN BERNARDINO COUNTY — A magnitude 3.9 quake rattled a sparsely populated desert area at the eastern end of the San Bernardino Mountains on Wednesday morning, Caltech seismologists reported.
The 10:28 a.m. temblor was centered four miles northeast of 11,499-foot San Gorgonio Peak, six miles north of the San Andreas fault and 10 miles southeast of Big Bear Lake. It was at a depth of 8.5 miles.
There were no reports of damage or injuries.
Seismologist Nick Scheckel at Caltech said it was not an aftershock of the 1992 Landers-Big Bear quakes, but was a new seismic event.
The area, however, has had frequent earthquakes in the past. Two quakes in the high magnitude-4 range occurred in recent years just west of San Gorgonio Peak.
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