Southland Jolted by 2 Small Quakes
An aftershock struck the Southland at 4:26 p.m. Sunday, adding another temblor to the more than 8,000 that have followed the Northridge earthquake, Caltech reported.
The magnitude 2.8 aftershock was centered four miles northwest of Chatsworth, said Robby Robb, a seismologist at Caltech.
A magnitude 3.2 temblor in Inyo County Sunday night was unrelated to the Jan. 17 quake.
That earthquake, which happened at 8:22 p.m., struck an area seven miles north-northeast of Little Lake at the China Lake U.S. Naval Weapons Center, a Caltech seismologist said.
“The earthquake was in no way related to the Northridge earthquake,” Robby Robb said. “It was an earthquake in its own right.”
There were no reports of injury or damage from either quake.
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