LAKE COUNTY, Calif. – Several small and moderately sized earthquakes were reported around Lake County on Tuesday morning.
The quakes occurred over a three-hour period in the Cobb and Kelseyville areas, according to the US Geological Survey.
The first, and largest, of the quakes, measuring 3.1 in magnitude, occurred just before 7:30 a.m. two miles west southwest of Anderson Springs, five miles east southeast of The Geysers geothermal steamfield and five miles south of Cobb, at a depth of just under a mile, the US Geological Survey reported.
Then, from 10:32 a.m. to 10:36 a.m., three small quakes – measuring 2.6, 2.5 and 2.9 in magnitude, respectively – were reported between three and four miles south southeast of Soda Bay, the survey said.
The US Geological Survey said the quakes ranged in depth from 1.7 to 2.9 miles.
The agency had received 31 shake reports from Clearlake, Kelseyville and even Morgan Hill by noon on Tuesday regarding the 2.9-magnitude quake near Soda Bay.
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