Pair of Small Earthquakes Rattle Northern California
Pair of Small Earthquakes Rattle Northern California Sunday around 6:44 a.m., a 3.8 magnitude earthquake shook the ground 31 miles outside of Chico — which was followed by a smaller 3.2 magnitude tremor south of Gilroy at 11:05 a.m. this morning. According to the United States Geological Survey (USGS), a pair of notable earthquakes rattled parts of NorCal Sunday, each of the quakes happening before noon. Though comparatively small and quite common — earthquakes that register between 2.5 and 4.5 on the Richter scale number annually some 30,000 across the world — these like-magnitude eart...
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