"Double-Quake:" More Earthquakes Shake Yorba Linda Area

[billym]

"Double-Quake:" More Earthquakes Shake Yorba Linda Area | NBC Southern California

Back-to-back magnitude-4.5 and -3.4 earthquakes were reported Wednesday morning near Yorba Linda area, just hours after a magnitude-4.4 quake and several aftershocks were reported in the area.

Wednesday's earthquake was reported at 9:33 a.m. about one mile northeast of Yorba Linda. A magnitude-3.4 quake was reported at 9:51 a.m. in the same area.

"It's hard to tell if this was a quake or aftershock because they were in the same area and same magnitude, so I would call this a double-quake," said Dr. Kate Hutton, staff seismologist at Caltech. "I would call this a cluster or quake swarm. We can expect to see more small quakes-aftershocks."

By 12:30 p.m., more than 10 quakes had been reported in the area:

[readytogo]

This is pretty much normal for So. Cal.

[readyforhome]

Woah!

[GlennO]

Yawn.........