Kern County was hit by a 5.3 magnitude earthquake on Tuesday night, centered in Lamont, California, not far from Bakersfield, according to the USGS. The 5.3 earthquake hit at 9:09 p.m. PT and was ...

KERN COUNTY, CA - A preliminary 2.2 magnitude quake was registered close to Grapevine on Wednesday around midday, the U.S. Geological Survey reported.

The 5.2-magnitude earthquake Tuesday night shook many parts of Southern California, bringing attention to an important aspect of seismic events: their depth. The temblor, which struck near Mettler in ...

California Gov. Gavin Newsom said after the 5.2 magnitude earthquake hit Kern County Tuesday, many Californians received an alert before serious shaking started thanks to a first-in-the-nation early ...

KERN COUNTY, CA - A preliminary 2.0 magnitude quake was registered close to Taft Thursday morning, the U.S. Geological Survey reported. The tremor shook the region at 7:01 a.m. It occurred at a depth ...

KERN COUNTY, CA - According to the U.S. Geological Survey, a 2.1 magnitude quake occurred close to Grapevine on Friday around midday. It was reported that a tremor struck the area at 11:43 a.m. The ...

On an early July morning in 1952, Kern County residents were shaken by a magnitude 7.5 earthquake. The initial quake and more than 20 aftershocks, many of them magnitude 5.0 or greater, left 12 people ...