Second earthquake of day shakes The Geysers
July 16, 2010 |12:05 | News By : Team X
Another earthquake has rattled an area of Northern California that is home to a number of geothermal power plants. The U.S. Geological Survey says a magnitude-3.9 quake hit at 4:54 p.m. Thursday about a mile north of The Geysers, or about 26 miles northwest of Santa Rosa. The quake follows a magnitude-4.0 earthquake that hit the same area at 8:30 a.m. Thursday.
David Oppenheimer, a seismologist with the USGS, says the afternoon quake was an aftershock related to the quake earlier in the day. A dispatcher with the Sonoma County Sheriff's Department says there were no reports of injuries or damage from either of the two quakes.
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