{"id":48353,"date":"2026-04-15T19:07:27","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T19:07:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=48353"},"modified":"2026-04-15T19:07:27","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T19:07:27","slug":"map-3-2-magnitude-earthquake-shakes-southern-california","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=48353","title":{"rendered":"Map: 3.2-Magnitude Earthquake Shakes Southern California"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"g-credit-note svelte-6t0d6y\">Note: Map shows the area with a shake intensity of 3 or greater, which U.S.G.S. defines as \u201cweak,\u201d though the earthquake may be felt outside the areas shown.<\/span>  <span class=\"g-credit-note g-note-outage g-outages-timestamp svelte-6t0d6y\">\u00a0All times on the map are Pacific time.<\/span> <span class=\"g-credit-note svelte-6t0d6y\">The New York Times<\/span> <\/p>\n<p class=\"g-text svelte-urmhfi\">A minor, 3.2-magnitude earthquake struck in Southern California on Wednesday, according to the United States Geological Survey.<\/p>\n<p class=\"g-text svelte-urmhfi\">The temblor happened at 7:51 a.m. Pacific time about 15 miles southwest of Maricopa, Calif., data from the agency shows.<\/p>\n<p class=\"g-text svelte-urmhfi\">U.S.G.S. data earlier reported that the magnitude was 3.5.<\/p>\n<p class=\"g-text svelte-urmhfi\">As seismologists review available data, they may revise the earthquake\u2019s reported magnitude. Additional information collected about the earthquake may also prompt U.S.G.S. scientists to update the shake-severity map.<\/p>\n<p class=\"g-text svelte-urmhfi\">Source: United States Geological Survey | Notes: Shaking categories are based on the Modified Mercalli Intensity scale. When aftershock data is available, the corresponding maps and charts include earthquakes within 100 miles and seven days of the initial quake. All times above are Pacific time. Shake data is as of Wednesday, April 15 at 11:36 a.m. Eastern. Aftershocks data is as of Wednesday, April 15 at 1:07 p.m. Eastern.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Note: Map shows the area with a shake intensity of 3 or greater, which U.S.G.S. defines as \u201cweak,\u201d though the earthquake may be felt outside the areas shown. \u00a0All times on the map are Pacific time. The New York Times A minor, 3.2-magnitude earthquake struck in Southern California on Wednesday, according to the United States<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":48354,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[24226,667,2417,2415,7692,6493],"class_list":{"0":"post-48353","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-crime-justice","8":"tag-3-2magnitude","9":"tag-california","10":"tag-earthquake","11":"tag-map","12":"tag-shakes","13":"tag-southern"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48353\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/48354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}