The quake's epicenter was
two miles northwest of Devore, California, where residents told CNN
affiliate KCAL that their homes shook, without damage, authorities said.
"It's not on the San Andreas fault. It's located very close to it," seismologist Lucy Jones of the U.S. Geological Survey told KCAL.
Added John Bellini of the U.S. Geological Survey: "It's capable of knocking items from shelves and maybe cracking plaster."
USGS originally put the magnitude at 4.1 before revising it to 3.8.
The San Bernardino County
Sheriff's Department in nearby Rancho Cucamonga told CNN that it didn't
receive reports of major damage shortly after the quake.
"It was a solid boom and
everything shook," Devore resident Tracie Thompson told KCAL. "None of
the china moved or anything. It was over so quickly. It was really a
harsh jolt to the house."
Devore is about a 55-mile drive northeast of downtown Los Angeles.
The region is known as the Inland Empire, east of Los Angeles.
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