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Trio Of Small Earthquakes Strike Near Antioch
The temblors rattled an area south of Antioch Sunday afternoon, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.
CONCORD, CA — A cluster of three small earthquakes rattled an area south of Antioch Sunday afternoon, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.
The first quake with a preliminary magnitude of 2.5 hit at about 12:50 p.m., while the second was a 3.1 magnitude that followed at about 1:20 p.m., according to the USGS.
The third was measured as a 2.7 magnitude quake at about 2 p.m.
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The trio of temblors was roughly clustered near Contra Loma Regional Park and arrived on the heels of a magnitude of 3.8 quake that shook the nearby Black Diamond Mines Regional Preserve April 19.
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