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Small Quake Hits Desert Near Barstow

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<i> Associated Press</i>

A small quake rattled the Mojave Desert on Sunday but no damage or injuries were reported, authorities said.

The magnitude 3.3 temblor hit just after 8 p.m. and was centered six miles east-northeast of Barstow, said seismologist Lisa Wald of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena.

The quake was an aftershock to the 7.5-magnitude Landers and 6.6-magnitude Big Bear quakes that shook Southern California on June 28, Wald said.

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Dorothea Jaramillo, a police dispatcher, said no one reported damage or injuries in the city about 90 miles east of Los Angeles.

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