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EUREKA, Calif. - Just hours after a moderate earthquake shook most of Southern California, a strong quake struck off the state’s northern coast to become the fourth significant shaker to jolt California this week.
 
Neither quake Thursday caused serious damage. One person was injured.

A 6.6-magnitude temblor hit about 125 miles off the coast of Eureka around 11:30 p.m. PT, rattling the ocean floor. In the afternoon, a 4.9-magnitude quake struck east of Los Angeles, startling people and knocking items off shelves and desks.

Four significant quakes have hit California this week: A magnitude-5.2 quake shook Riverside County on Sunday, and a magnitude-7.2 quake trembled Tuesday under the ocean 90 miles off Northern California.

  Stephanie Hanna, a spokeswoman for the U.S. Geological Survey, said Thursday night’s quake was likely an aftershock from Tuesday’s shaker, which prompted a brief tsunami warning for the entire U.S. west coast and part of Canada. Still, seismologists do not consider it particularly noteworthy that four significant seismic events occurred within a few days in California and off its coast.

 Channon Kelly was eating her lunch in downtown Los Angeles when the quake hit.

“I almost jumped out of my seat,” Kelly said. “I’m starting to get freaked out. We’ve had so many in the last week, the one Sunday and then in Northern California. I could hear the windows rattling and feel it all at the same time.”


Los Angeles based  record producer, author and playwright, Bruce Kimmel said . “I heard there was a seven point earthquake in Big Bear. I heard it at Kinko's when I was Fed Exing when some woman on a cell phone said it. However, every time I hear something like that, it turns out to be a two point earthquake or something. No one felt anything. She had nothing right, this stupid, stupid idiot woman. It was centered in Yucaipa, it was 4.9 and there was no damage, and most people weren't even aware of it. This is what drives me crazy about the world in which we live - these hysterical people who mis-hear, misunderstand, or listen to the media, who just report whatever they feel like.”

None of Southern California Edison’s 4.6 million customers lost power.

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