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Aug 7, 2009 9:53 am US/Pacific

Small Quakes Shake Up And Down California Coast

CBS 5 Earthquake Section

HUMBOLDT COUNTY (CBS 5 / AP) ―

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Earthquakes rattled up and down the California coast on Friday morning.

A magnitude-4.9 quake centered in the Pacific off the remote Humboldt County north coast community of Petrolia struck at 3:49 a.m.

The epicenter was in the ocean 18 miles west of the California/Oregon border areas.

Another smaller quake rattled the Fontana area of San Bernardino County about two hours earlier.

The U.S. Geological Survey in Pasadena said the magnitude-3.3 Fontana quake struck at 1:53 a.m. some 44 miles east of Los Angeles.