Preliminary data: Monday’s earthquake stronger than anticipated

SAN DIEGO (FOX 5/KUSI) — A 5.2 magnitude earthquake rattled through several counties across Southern California Monday morning.

If you thought the shaking felt more powerful than a magnitude 5 earthquake, you are not alone.

Aftershocks rattle eastern San Diego County after 5.2 earthquake

UCSD Scripps Institution of Oceanography Seismologist Alice Gabriel said the preliminary shaking data shows so far that this earthquake has had higher shaking reports than what is typically expected from an earthquake of this magnitude.

“That will be topic of future research of why we had such widely felt shaking reports for such a moderate size earthquake,” Gabriel said.

Some North County train services canceled or delayed after earthquake

She said Monday’s earthquake was the largest recorded in decades on the Elsinore Fault zone…

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