California residents nerves rattled by earthquake swarm in Inland Empire

An ongoing swarm of small earthquakes is rattling homes and nerves in the Inland Empire.

Over the weekend, there were a handful of new quakes near Devore, Idyllwild and Indio. The Devore quake on Saturday morning measured 3.8.

The recent earthquakes have been near the San Andreas Fault, that ominous crack in the Earth that threatens SoCal with the “Big One.”

The current swarm may seem like a lot of quakes, but that's not necessarily the case.

UC Riverside professor and earthquake expert Gareth Funning crunched the numbers for April 2012 compared to the same time last year.

"There were 200 more events of all earthquake sizes a year ago than there were this year,” Funning said.

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