Unconnected Earthquakes Rock Kern County and Simi Valley
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Two unrelated earthquakes rattled Southern California on Sunday, one in Kern County and another less than a minute later in Simi Valley, Caltech seismologists said.
The first quake, magnitude 3.6, struck at 7:27 p.m., 11 miles northwest of Ridgecrest--in the vicinity of a November 1995, 5.8-magnitude quake. Seismologists, however, have not yet classified Sunday’s temblor as an aftershock to that quake, said Caltech’s Sue Hough.
Two miles southwest of Simi Valley, a 2.9-magnitude quake struck 31 seconds after the Ridgecrest temblor. It was an aftershock to the 1994 Northridge quake.
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