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STATE : 3.4 Quake Hits San Diego County

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<i> From Times wire service</i> s

A mild earthquake below the ocean floor shook a wide stretch of San Diego County today, but there were no immediate reports of damage or injuries.

The temblor registered 3.4 on the Richter scale, struck at 7:11 a.m. and was centered beneath the seabed 27 miles southwest of Oceanside, said Amy Branch, a seismologist at Caltech in Pasadena. Scientists believe that the temblor was an aftershock of a 5.3-magnitude quake that struck July 13, 1986, Branch said.

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