CALIFORNIA IN BRIEF : EL CENTRO : 5 Small Quakes Rattle Desert City
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
Five small earthquakes struck near this Southern California desert city within two hours, seismologists reported. None of the temblors registered higher than magnitude 2.9, a spokesman for the Caltech seismology lab in Pasadena said. The epicenter was 25 miles north of town, near the Salton Sea, the spokesman said. The quakes occurred in the Brawley seismic zone, a complex web of faults. Seismologists reported similar waves of small quakes have struck the region before.
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