A magnitude 4.4 earthquake struck about a mile west of San Bernardino at 7:43 p.m. Wednesday evening and was felt across a wide swath of the Southland, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.
Southland earthquake expert Lucy Jones wrote on X that the “location is pretty deep (15 km), very close to the San Jacinto fault. That part of the fault is generally locked — it had a M7 in the 19th century. We often see small quakes like this below locked segments.”
A resident of Burbank, about 65 miles from San Bernardino, told City News Service he “felt it ever so slightly … more a noise than a vibration.”