Quakes Rumble Along Mexican Border
Seismic activity continued to rumble near the Mexican border, rattling parts of Riverside County, with an early morning 4.8-magnitude earthquake the largest of dozens of aftershocks recorded today.
The 4.8 temblor struck at 3:20 a.m., with an epicenter about 40 miles south of the point where the San Diego-Imperial county line ends at the U.S.- Mexico border, according to scientists at Caltech in Pasadena.
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Seismic analyst Anthony Guardino said the aftershock “was well within the the range of expected aftershocks” triggered by the magnitude-7.2 quake on April 4.
People reported to the USGS that they felt the quake near Lake Elsinore and in Hemet, San Diego, San Marcos, and Yuma, Ariz.
