{"id":616366,"date":"2026-02-26T01:11:13","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T01:11:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/616366\/"},"modified":"2026-02-26T01:11:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T01:11:13","slug":"magnitude-3-5-earthquake-rattles-kern-county-area-nbc-los-angeles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/616366\/","title":{"rendered":"Magnitude 3.5 earthquake rattles Kern County area \u2013 NBC Los Angeles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A preliminary magnitude 3.5 earthquake was reported at 4:20 p.m. Wednesday, in the Johannesburg area in Kern County according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/earthquake.usgs.gov\/earthquakes\/eventpage\/ci41404008\/executive\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/earthquake.usgs.gov\/earthquakes\/eventpage\/ci41404008\/executive\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">United States Geological Survey<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The quake\u2019s epicenter was located about 25.1 miles south-southeast of Ridgecrest, 37.3 miles northwest of Barstow, and 58.2 miles northeast of Lancaster, the agency reported.<\/p>\n<p>There were no immediate reports of people feeling the earthquake.<\/p>\n<p>No damage or injuries were reported.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Temblor-kern-county.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\"   alt=\" \"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\tUSGSUSGS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A preliminary magnitude 3.5 earthquake was reported at 4:20 p.m. Wednesday, in the Johannesburg area in Kern County&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":616367,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5123],"tags":[1582,276,12635,141092,2961,224,5337],"class_list":["post-616366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-ca","tag-california","tag-earthquakes","tag-kern-county","tag-la","tag-los-angeles","tag-losangeles"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116134273875463437","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616366","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=616366"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616366\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/616367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=616366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=616366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=616366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}