Coachella festival gently rocked by magnitude-3.8 earthquake
Music fans lodging, camping and raging in the Coachella Valley may have been swayed when a gentle, magnitude-3.8 earthquake struck the area Saturday morning.
SAN DIEGO — Music fans lodging, camping and raging in the Coachella Valley may have been swayed when a gentle, magnitude-3.8 earthquake struck the area Saturday morning.
The temblor struck at 9:08 a.m. just north of Borrego Springs, a San Diego County desert town about 60 miles south of the Empire Polo Club in Indio, home of the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival, according to U.S. Geological Survey information.
The temblor, minor as it may have been, was felt in a large swath of Southern California, a region of more than 20 million people. USGS data shows that residents reported feeling at least weak intensity from the shaker at locations from the U.S.-Mexico border to near the southern Orange County coast and into the vast desert.
The temblor struck about 7 miles beneath the surface, the USGS said.
It wasn’t clear if the earthquake erupted on a specific fault, but it was not far from the West’s most-feared fault, the San Andreas, which runs through the center of the Coachella Valley en route to the lowlands of the Salton Sea.
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