BANNING, Calif. — A small earthquake gave an early morning wake-up call to the inland region of Southern California.
The U.S. Geological Survey says the magnitude-4.5 jolt occurred at 6:42 a.m. Wednesday and was centered 2 miles north of Banning, about 85 miles east of Los Angeles.
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The Riverside County Fire Department received no reports of problems from the quake.
USGS seismologist Lucy Jones says the area has a history of many quakes in the magnitude-4 range.
Banning is a small city along Interstate 10 in the San Gorgonio Pass between the San Bernardino and San Jacinto (hah-SIN’-toh) mountain ranges.
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