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While not much on the official Richter scale, many people in Newport Beach got to experience HEARING a quake coming for the first time ever, before it bit.
Did you feel it? That 3.9 was a reading much, much less than it felt from here in Newport!
At 4:52:24pm today, an earthquake sent its waves through Newport Beach.
The quake was centered at 33.629N 117.908W, only 1 mile east-northeast from Newport.
You can find more updated information, here:
https://scedc.caltech.edu/recent/Quakes/ci40616303.html and here:
https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/ci40616311/executive
For more information about how to be prepared, check out our award-winning Civilian Emergency Response Team, CERT.
Remember, if you have questions about earthquakes, you can always check the live feed at this URL: http://savenewport.com/earthquakes/
