Southland Shaken by 3 Temblors
Three earthquakes were felt in Southern California on Sunday--magnitude 4.3 and 3.7 temblors in the Santa Monica Mountains near the Los Angeles-Ventura County line and a mild 3.4-magnitude jolt near Big Bear Lake.
The largest earthquake, which Caltech seismologists said was not an aftershock of last year’s Northridge quake, was centered seven miles northwest of Point Dume and felt fairly strongly in both Ventura County and on the Westside of Los Angeles at 1:24 p.m. Neither damage nor injuries were reported.
A 3.7 aftershock of that quake struck in about the same area at 2:54 p.m.
Quakes as strong as magnitude 5.0 have occurred several times in recent years in the vicinity of Point Dume, and a 5.75 temblor was centered near Oxnard in 1973.
A Caltech spokesman said the other quake Sunday, at 7:47 a.m., was centered six miles northeast of Big Bear Lake and was an aftershock of the 1992 Landers-Big Bear earthquakes.
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