A Swarm of Small Quakes Rattle Nerves in Riverside County

The Inland Empire has been very active during the past seven days, seismically speaking. "There's the Elsinore Fault, close to which several of the earthquakes have occurred this week," said Dr. Gareth Funning, of UC Riverside. On Tuesday morning, a small but shallow earthquake struck the Coachella Valley, the U.S. Geological Survey reported. The temblor struck with a magnitude of 3.4 at 8:15 a.m. at a depth of 1.2 miles, its epicenter 11 miles north-northeast of Indio and 20 miles south- southwest of Twenty-nine Palms, according to...