Quake Jostles Lake Isabella Area
A small earthquake shook a sparsely populated area outside this southern Sierra Nevada town Saturday morning, but there were no reports of damage or injury.
The temblor struck at 7:51 a.m. and had a preliminary magnitude of 3.5, according to Caltech in Pasadena.
The quake was centered about 25 miles north-northeast of Lake Isabella.
There were no reports of damage or injury, said a dispatcher with the Kern County Sheriff’s Department.
Lake Isabella is about 38 miles northeast of Bakersfield and 180 miles north of downtown Los Angeles.
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