SOUTHLAND : Whittier Quake Barely Noticed
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A small earthquake registered on seismographs this morning but apparently was felt by very few residents who live along the Whittier Narrows fault that caused widespread damage in a destructive temblor nearly two years ago.
The 10:15 a.m. quake had a magnitude of 2.1 in ground motion and was centered directly beneath Whittier, 15 miles southeast of downtown Los Angeles, said Robert Finn of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena. The quake was probably an aftershock of the destructive Oct. 1, 1987, quake that had a magnitude of 5.9, Finn said.
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