2.8 Aftershock Rattles Pomona Valley Area
A mild earthquake rattled the Pomona Valley east of Los Angeles on Wednesday. Scientists said it was the latest of more than a thousand aftershocks of a much stronger jolt in February.
There were no immediate reports of damage or injuries, according to police in Pomona and Upland. The temblor at 4:20 p.m. was measured at a magnitude of 2.8 and was centered four miles north-northeast of Pomona, said Bob Finn, spokesman for Caltech in Pasadena.
“It felt like a rumbling and rolling. Some of us in the building noticed it and some didn’t,” said Gloria Kelley, a records clerk at the police department in Upland, northeast of Pomona.
Pomona police dispatchers said they neither felt the quake nor received calls from anyone who did. Finn said some area residents felt the shaking and called area radio stations.
Seismologists consider the quake an aftershock of the 5.5 magnitude Upland of Feb. 28, Finn said.
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