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Fog Blog B.C. and California Earthquakes Log:


A 6.2 EARTH QUAKE HIT THE QUEEN CHARLOTTE ISLANDS THURSDAY IN B.C. THEN SMALLER QUAKES FOLLOWED TODAY RANGING FROM 4.2 TO 5.6 FELT IN THE LOWER MAINLAND......THE BIG NEWS ALSO FROM CALIFORNIA IN THE INTERIOR 100 MILES EAST OF L.A. THERE WAS A 6.4 MAGNITUDE QUAKE FELT ALL THE WAY FROM L.A. TO LAS VEGAS!.....Three earthquakes registering between 4.5 and 5.6 magnitude were detected off the coast of B.C. on Friday morning.The tremors, classified as aftershocks to a Wednesday quake, struck within minutes of each other to the south of Haida Gwaii on Friday — one at 5:51 a.m. PT, another 5:58 a.m. and the third at 6:02 a.m. The first was detected with a preliminary magnitude of 4.5, according to the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). The agency said the second quake had a preliminary magnitude of 5.6 and the third measured 4.6.A tweet from Emergency Info B.C. said there is no tsunami threat to the province. USGS said no damage is expected........Aftershocks kept rolling across Southern California on Friday morning, with one measuring 5.4 reported northeast of Ridgecrest, the US Geological Survey said.That temblor, recorded at 4:07 a.m. (7:07 a.m. ET) Friday, was the strongest of more than 200 aftershocks of at least 2.5-magnitude that followed Thursday's powerful 6.4-magnitude earthquake, the USGS said.The 5.4 aftershock was centered about 10 miles west of Searles Valley and was felt "throughout the SoCal region," the Los Angeles Fire Department reported. The LAFD said there were no immediate reports of damage in the city.Thursday's earthquake -- centered near Ridgecrest, 150 miles north of Los Angeles -- was the strongest to hit Southern California in nearly 20 years, prompting one city's mayor and later the governor to declare a state of emergency for the area.Thursday's quake was like being in a movie, Ridgecrest resident Sara Baird said."Everything shakes. The whole ground shakes beneath you, the whole house. Everything fell in my kitchen, it's still on the floor," Baird told CNN affiliate KABC.

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