Southern California has been rocking and rolling recently.

We of course routinely get earthquakes in this region, but it had been a while since we've had sizable quakes felt over large locations by a lot of people.

With today's 4.4-magnitute shaker in El Sereno and last week's 5.2 in the Bakersfield area ... we've got a couple of stark wake-up calls that Southern California is still earthquake country.

Yehuda Ben-Zion is Director of the Statewide California Earthquake Center and Professor of Earth Sciences at USC.

Southern California has been rocking and rolling recently.
We of course routinely get earthquakes in this region, but it had been a while since we've had sizable quakes felt over large locations by a lot of people.
With today's 4.4-magnitute shaker in El Sereno and last week's 5.2 in the Bakersfield area ... we've got a couple of stark wake-up calls that Southern California is still earthquake country.
Yehuda Ben-Zion is Director of the Statewide California Earthquake Center and Professor of Earth Sciences at USC.

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