California rocked by twin earthquakes in San Bernardino

Source: Daily Mail

Date: February 10, 2025

A pair of earthquakes rocked San Bernardino, California, on Monday morning. 

The first tremor hit the area at 9.44am local time at a preliminary 3.5 magnitude, and a second quake followed at 9.48am at a 3.0 magnitude, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. 

Both earthquakes took place approximately three miles north-northeast of San Bernardino, with their depths spanning more than four miles.  No reports of damage were immediately reported. 

The 3.5 earthquake was felt in San Bernardino, as well as Ontario, Victorville, Hesperia and Riverside. 

Residents in Inglewood, Redondo Beach, Palm Springs, Huntington Beach and north San Diego County reported feeling them as well, as one X user said: 'Felt both!' 

'Yup felt that one...another day in California,' wrote another. 

More than 230 people said they felt shaking, the USGS Felt Report said. 

Others said they didn't feel the quakes at all, as California is used to larger tremors. 

'Hell, I’m IN San Bernardino - and I needed social media to tell me there was an earthquake,' a person said on X. 

'No, did not feel it. And I'm in that area,' another said on Facebook. 

In January, California was hit with four earthquakes in the space of 24 hours.  

The four quakes occurred along the San Andreas fault - the volatile boundary between two tectonic plates: the Pacific plate and the North American plate. It runs 800 miles along the coast of California. 

Scientists have said that the West Coast is overdue for a massive quake along the San Andreas fault, which would measure magnitude 8 or higher.

While no injuries or damage was reported, the seismic activity followed a deadly stretch of wildfires in Southern California that began on January 7.

Both the southern and northern sections of the San Andreas fault have a roughly equal likelihood of generating a high-magnitude earthquake in the next few decades.

The 'Big One' would measure an 8.0 magnitude or above, causing roughly 1,800 deaths, 50,000 injuries and $200 billion in damage, according to the Great California Shakeout.

Experts are 'fairly confident that there could be a pretty large earthquake at some point in the next 30 years,' Angie Lux, project scientist for Earthquake Early Warning at the Berkeley Seismology Lab, told DailyMail.com.