A shallow magnitude 5.8 earthquake struck about 100 miles off Northern California's Lost Coast on Thursday morning, according to the U.S. Geological Survey, APA reports quoting Reuters.
The temblor was reported at 8:39 a.m. in the Pacific Ocean west of Capetown at a depth of three miles.
Paul Caruso, a geophysicist at the National Earthquake Information Center in Golden, Colo., said the USGS recorded a 5.1-magnitude aftershock in the same area just before 9:30 a.m.
The aftershock was unintentionally posted twice on the USGS website as separate 5.1 and 5.3 quakes, he said. What likely happened, he said, is that a tsunami warning agency or some other entity also recorded the temblor and a duplicate posting was made.
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