Pair of Quakes Shake East of San Diego

A pair of minor earthquakes rattled areas east of San Diego Saturday, according to automated seismographs.

The first quake, measured at a magnitude of 3.3, hit the Borrego Springs area at 4:24 a.m. No damage was reported from that shaker, which had an epicenter 52 miles northeast of San Diego.

The second quake, also with a magnitude of 3.3, hit the Salton Sea near Bombay Beach at 1:17 p.m.  That sparsely-populated epicenter was 90 miles northeast of San Diego.

The quake reports come from automated seismographs and has not been verified by seismologists.

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