San Diego
A small earthquake shook the San Diego area Tuesday afternoon but caused no damage, officials reported.
Instruments at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego registered a quake at 4:48 p.m. that measured 3.7 on the Richter scale and centered at the tip of Point Loma. Instruments at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena recorded a quake a minute earlier at a 3.8 magnitude and centered about 26 miles southwest of San Diego in the Pacific.
As is usual in such cases, seismologists will study their data over the next several days to pinpoint a location and measurement. Fourteen quakes ranging from 2.5 to 4.2 shook San Diego during a four-day period in June, 1985. Most of them were centered in San Diego Bay near the 32nd Street Naval Station. Scientists said Tuesday that they will need several weeks to determine whether Tuesday’s quake is related to those temblors.
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