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Live Updates: Strong earthquake, magnitude 5.9, rattles Central California, Sierra Nevada
Sacramento Bee 2 hrs ago Sam Stanton, Dale Kasler, and Daniel Hunt, The Sacramento Bee
Jul. 8 An earthquake jolted Central California on Thursday afternoon, shaking up residents of the Sierra Nevada foothills and the San Joaquin and Sacramento valleys.
The shaking, registering magnitude 5.9, was centered in the Little Antelope Valley about four miles south of Coleville in Mono County, about 150 miles east of Sacramento.
Preliminary reports indicated two earthquakes had struck 25 seconds but 100 miles apart but the U.S. Geological Survey revised the shaking and removed the report of a magnitude 4.8 quake in Farmington, about five miles southeast of Stockton.
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An earthquake jolted Central California on Thursday afternoon, shaking up residents of the Sierra Nevada foothills and the San Joaquin and Sacramento valleys.
The shaking struck at 3:49 p.m., registering magnitude 5.9, and was centered in the Little Antelope Valley about four miles south of Coleville in Mono County, about 150 miles east of Sacramento.
A swarm of more than two dozen aftershocks in the Sierra followed most of the quakes were between 4.6 and 1.0, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.
Preliminary reports indicated two earthquakes had struck 25 seconds but 100 miles apart but the U.S. Geological Survey revised the shaking and removed the report of a magnitude 4.8 quake in Farmington, about five miles southeast of Stockton in San Joaquin County.