CALIFORNIA IN BRIEF : LONE PINE : 3.4 Temblor Jolts Owens Valley Area
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
The Owens Valley along the eastern Sierra Nevada was jolted by an earthquake Friday, but no damage was reported, officials said. The magnitude-3.4 temblor struck at 6:22 a.m. and was centered 11 miles south of Lone Pine, said seismologist Rick McKenzie of the UC Berkeley seismographic station. A few residents of Lone Pine, 175 miles north of Los Angeles, called the Inyo County Sheriff’s Department, but none reported damage or injuries.
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