The quake, which hit at a shallow depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), was centered about 39 miles (63 km) west of the town of Ferndale, a sparsely populated portion of the northern California coast, the U ...

A pair of modest earthquakes rattled Southern California on Saturday morning, with epicenters in Ontario. The earthquakes, of magnitudes 3.5 and 3.9, occurred within about a half hour of each other.

• Tuesday it grew by more than 40,000 acres, becoming California’s third-largest fire of the season, behind Park and Borel, which started in July and are close to full containment.