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Earthquakes Rattle Southern Calif.

BIG BEAR LAKE, Calif. (AP) -- An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 5.1 rattled a wide swath of Southern California on Saturday afternoon. No damage or injuries were immediately reported.

The quake struck at 1:05 p.m. and was centered 4 miles northwest of this San Bernardino County ski resort, according to preliminary estimates from the U.S. Geological Survey.

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

''It was a good rolling earthquake,'' said David Delay, a Big Bear City fire engineer. ''Everybody was doing the typical duck and roll.''

At least eight small aftershocks followed.

The temblor was not connected to a magnitude-3.9 earthquake that rattled the desert southeast of Los Angeles about three hours earlier, said Joe Franck, a seismologist at California Institute of Technology.

No damage or injuries were reported as a result of that temblor, which occurred at 9:50 a.m. and was centered 9 miles northeast of Indio, about 130 miles southeast of Los Angeles.

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SAR01 ezOP Posts: 1700 (2/11/01 2:12:16 am) Reply | Edit | Del Re: Earthquakes Rattle Southern Calif. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks, Kona, I just got the pc, and didn't know about this! been busy, didn't have the tv on, either!

-- Kona (konaal2000@yahoo.com), July 03, 2001


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