Magnitude 3.6 Aftershock Rattles Through Valleys
Windows and nerves were rattled but no damage was reported when a magnitude 3.6 aftershock shook the Santa Clarita and San Fernando valleys early Sunday.
The shaker occurred at 2:09 a.m. and was centered three miles south southwest of Valencia, said seismologist Bob Dollar of the U.S. Geological Survey at Caltech in Pasadena.
The brief aftershock is the latest of about 15,000 recorded since the 6.7-magnitude Northridge earthquake on Jan. 17, 1994, Dollar said. Of those, only about 460 were magnitude 3.0 or greater, he said.
A second, unrelated earthquake shook the Big Bear area at 10:21 a.m., Dollar said.
An aftershock of the June 28, 1992, Landers and Big Bear earthquakes, the temblor measured 3.0 and was centered three miles north of the resort area. More than 60,000 aftershocks have been recorded since those quakes, in which the initial temblors measured magnitudes 7.3 and 6.8.
No damage was reported from either of the aftershocks, according to the Santa Clarita Sheriff’s Station and the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department.
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