Southern California town of Yorba Linda rattled by two 4.5 quakes within 10 hours
Partiv Patel
Aug. 10, 2012

Seismologists at USGS and the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena said the twin quakes, called "doublets," occurred near the so-called Whittier fault, one of the larger underground fissures running through Southern California.

In Yorba Linda, a town of about 66,000 near the epicenter, city spokesman Mark Aalders said the first quake produced more of an initial jolt, "but today it seemed to linger longer."

Earthquakes measured at 4.5 typically generate too little ground motion to cause property damage, and quakes of all sizes tend to occur in clusters, experts said.

"I don''t think it's particularly unusual," Caltech seismologist Kate Hutton told Reuters. "It's part of Southern California's normal earthquake activity."

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