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April 13, 2024 / 5:13 PM

3.8 temblor rattles Southern California near Coachella music festival

Confetti falls on the crowd as Australian band Tame Impala performs on stage during the Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival in Indio near Palm Springs, Calif, in April 2019. Attendees this year might have felt a small jolt from a 3.8 tremblor about 60 miles south of the festival site Saturday morning. File photo by Etienne Laurent/EPA-EFE

Confetti falls on the crowd as Australian band Tame Impala performs on stage during the Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival in Indio near Palm Springs, Calif, in April 2019. Attendees this year might have felt a small jolt from a 3.8 tremblor about 60 miles south of the festival site Saturday morning. File photo by Etienne Laurent/EPA-EFE

April 13 (UPI) -- A small temblor measuring a 3.8 magnitude struck Southern California's Sonora Desert region on Saturday not far from the ongoing Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival.

The quake was centered about 8 miles northeast of Borrego Springs at 9:08 a.m. local time Saturday, the U.S. Geological Survey reported.

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The USGS posted an interactive map of the tremblor's location and said there are no reports of damage.

Attendees at the annual Coachella festival felt a "small rattle" at the festival site, which is located about 75 miles by road and about 60 miles in a straight line north of Borrego Springs.

The festival is in its second day, but artists weren't scheduled to start playing until after the venue opened its gates at 1 p.m.

Those camping out at the festival's campground likely only felt light movement, if any, the USGS reported.

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