Saturday, 19 April 2025

Fierce Earthquake Shakes Major American City


A 5.2 magnitude earthquake struck the San Diego area on Monday.

“The earthquake’s epicenter was reported near Julian, California, a town about 30 miles northeast of downtown San Diego, according to the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS),” Fox News reports.

There currently have been no reports of injuries or damage.

Fox News reports:

The temblor was initially reported as 6.0 magnitude before being downgraded to 5.2 magnitude, according to the USGS.

Gov. Gavin Newsom’s office said that Newsom was briefed on the earthquake and that the state is coordinating with local authorities to assess any damage and if emergency response is needed.

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From The San Diego Union-Tribune:

A magnitude-5.2 earthquake near Julian rattled much of Southern California just after 10 a.m. Monday, prompting brief evacuations in downtown San Diego and shaking cities as far away as Oxnard and Palm Springs.

The temblor, with an epicenter 3 miles south of Julian, caused especially hard shaking there and in Ramona, San Diego Country Estates, Pine Valley and Cuyamaca Rancho State Park, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.

By 11:30 a.m., it had produced four aftershocks in the 3.0 to 3.9 range. Sequences of this kind rarely lead to much larger quakes.

There were no immediate reports of widespread damage, but the California Highway Patrol received several reports of rockslides around the region.

Callers told dispatchers that boulders had fallen and were blocking some lanes on state Route 76 near East Grade Road near Lake Henshaw, and that there had been a rockslide on La Cresta Road near Flume Road in the Granite Hills area, just east of El Cajon.

CHP also had a report of a dirt or rockslide on Palomar Mountain near the entrance to the state park and sent officers to check it out.

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