Quake Jolts Southern California

A magnitude-4.8 earthquake jolted a wide area of Southern California early Sunday but no damage or injuries were reported, authorities said.

The quake struck at 6:34 a.m. near the San Gorgonio Mountains, said seismologist Lucy Jones with the U.S. Geological Survey at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena.

"It woke me up," Richard Clayton, 38, of Yucaipa, who said he just moved to California. It was his first earthquake.

"I said to my wife I better go golfing, the world's going to end."

The quake, located about 20 miles east of town, was 4.9 miles below the earth's surface. It was a new quake and not an aftershock to any previous one, Jones said.

No damage or injuries were reported, according to dispatchers at sheriff's departments in San Bernardino County and Riverside County.

The quake was felt as far away as downtown Los Angeles, 80 miles west of the epicenter.

People in San Bernardino described it as a rolling motion, rather than a sharp jolt as felt in other areas.