Earthquakes Quakes near Julian rattle Idyllwild
Several earthquakes shook Idyllwild on the morning of Monday, April 14. The USGS reported a magnitude 5.2 quake 4km south of Julian at 10:08 a.m. The largest after shock was M3 in the same location at 10:13. Another magnitude 3.5 quake was reported 7km east-southeast of Borrego Springs around the same time.
Between the two quakes near Julian, five earthquakes ranging from magnitude 2.6 to 2.9 were recorded, and over the next hour more than 40 smaller quakes were reported from the same area — the first at magnitude 2.5, the rest below magnitude 2.
Cal Tech seismologist Lucy Jones, posting on Bluesky, described the Elsinore fault as a “junior sibling” of the San Andreas fault, and said that the M5.3 was the largest quake she had seen near that fault since she arrived in California in 1983.
