3.0 QUAKE HITS NEAR PALMDALE LATE THURSDAY.Byline: Daily News Staff and Wire Service A small earthquake that struck Thursday night was centered seven miles south-southeast of downtown Palmdale, seismologists said. Measured at magnitude 3.0, the 11:40 p.m. temblor went unnoticed by most Antelope Valley residents but was described as a sharp jolt by people in east Palmdale and Littlerock. Coordinates provided by the California Institute of Technology California Institute of Technology, at Pasadena, Calif.; originally for men, became coeducational in 1970; founded 1891 as Throop Polytechnic Institute; called Throop College of Technology, 1913–20. pinpointed the epicenter about three miles south of the San Andreas Fault San Andreas fault, great fracture (see fault) of the earth's crust in California. It is the principal fault of an intricate network of faults extending more than 600 mi (965 km) from NW California to the Gulf of California. . The epicenter was about two miles east of Angeles Forest Highway The Angeles Forest Highway traverses the Angeles National Forest and connects the Los Angeles basin to the Antelope Valley by going up and over the San Gabriel Mountains. The highway is variously known as County Road N-3 or FH-59 or the Palmdale cutoff. It is about 25 miles long. , north of Mount Emma Road, on the Angeles National Forest The Angeles National Forest (ANF) was established by executive order on December 20, 1892 as the San Gabriel Timberland Reserve. It covers over 2,600 km² (650,000 acres) and is located in the San Gabriel Mountains of Los Angeles County, just north of the metropolitan area of Los border. The earthquake was not an aftershock, said Steve Bryant, seismologist at California Institute of Technology. |
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