Two 3.0-plus earthquakes rocked Southern California in a recent 14-hour period.
According to the U.S. Geological Survey, the last one, a 3.5 “shallow” strike, hit just before 9 a.m. today in the mountains near Coachella.
A Palm Springs newspaper is reporting that residents in the area of the quake (and as far south as San Diego County) felt the ground mildly shake but didn't report any serious damage.
Around 7 p.m. on Thursday, a 3.1 quake also struck near Joshua Tree.
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The largest recent quake, 4.1, happened at sea several miles off the Long Beach/Orange County coast on Jan. 3.
What could all this mean? Well, doomsday advocates say Nostradamus
predicted 2012 will bring multiple, disastrous earthquakes and “great
calamity” leading to the end of the world.
Or, perhaps, it could mean nothing except a Hollywood sequel.
–R. Scott Moxley / OC Weekly
CNN-featured investigative reporter R. Scott Moxley has won Journalist of the Year honors at the Los Angeles Press Club; been named Distinguished Journalist of the Year by the LA Society of Professional Journalists; obtained one of the last exclusive prison interviews with Charles Manson disciple Susan Atkins; won inclusion in Jeffrey Toobin’s The Best American Crime Reporting for his coverage of a white supremacist’s senseless murder of a beloved Vietnamese refugee; launched multi-year probes that resulted in the FBI arrests and convictions of the top three ranking members of the Orange County Sheriff’s Department; and gained praise from New York Times Magazine writers for his “herculean job” exposing entrenched Southern California law enforcement corruption.
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