3.2 Magnitude Earthquake Hits Kernville, California: USGS

Top video: Building shakes during massive Indonesia earthquake today

A 3.2 magnitude earthquake hit near Kernville, California, on Sept. 28, according to the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS).

The quake had a depth of about 5.5 miles, located approximately 10 miles east of Kernville, Kern County.

A 3.2 magnitude earthquake hit near Kernville, Calif., on Sept. 28, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. (USGS)

A number of people reported feeling it on the USGS website and on social media.

Wrote one person on Twitter: “3.5 earthquake near me in Kernville, Ca.”

It’s not clear if any damage was done or if injuries were reported during the earthquake.

Indonesia Quake Update

The quake comes just hours after a massive, 7.5 magnitude earthquake struck Sulawesi in Indonesia, causing likely catastrophic damage. A tsunami was triggered by the quake, reportedly hitting the city of Palu, a city of about 330,000.

The tsunami was confirmed by local agencies to be 10 feet in height, the Weather Channel reported. “The situation is chaotic, people are running on the streets and buildings collapsed. There is a ship washed ashore,” Dwikorita Karnawati, the chief of Indonesia’s meteorology and geophysics agency, was quoted as saying by the outlet.

Video footage showed a massive wall of water slamming into buildings and inundating the city. Other video footage (seen at the top of the article) shows a building shaking during the tremor.

Cause of San Bernardino Quakes?

The USGS also noted a number of aftershocks around the area of the quake.

Meanwhile, a new study found that there is an unusual cause for small earthquakes around San Bernardino County.

The study, published in Geophysical Research Letters, looked at the deformation patterns of thousands of quakes below the San Andreas and San Jacinto faults, primarily centered in San Bernardino.

The quakes, according to researchers, have vertical movement, whereas most earthquakes in the region have horizontal slipping.

“Over the past 36 years, seismic stations have recorded the style of deformation from thousands of small earthquakes in the San Bernardino basin, California,” said the authors in an abstract of the study.

“Within this basin, many earthquakes below 10 km (6 miles) depth show deformation that does not match what we expect for this region during the current period between large damaging earthquakes along the San Jacinto and San Andreas faults,” they added.