San Diego County lightly shaken Wednesday by onshore and offshore earthquakes
The temblors were part of normal seismicity in Southern California
Parts of San Diego County were briefly and lightly shaken on Wednesday by a pair of small earthquakes, one which originated offshore and the other which occurred in the desert, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.
At 3:28 a.m. a magnitude 3.6 quake occurred roughly 3.7 miles beneath the seafloor, at a spot 61 miles west-southwest of La Jolla. The temblor happened near the San Clemente fault system, southeast of San Clemente Island.
That was followed at 9:01 a.m. by a 3.3 quake that broke 5 miles north-northeast of Borrego Springs, in the vicinity of the San Jacinto fault system.
Seismologists say that such shaking is normal in Southern California and rarely leads to a significantly larger event.
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