More Mexican earthquakes shake region

SAN DIEGO UNION TRIBUNE.- Several earthquakes in Mexico Thursday morning, including a 5.5 magnitude quake at 9:44 a.m., could be felt in San Diego.
Automated USGS seismographs indicate a magnitude 5.5 quake hit 30 miles south-southeast of Mexicali while a 4.5 magnitude quake hit about 18 miles west-southwest of Mexicali an hour earlier.
The epicenter was near the Cerro Prieto geothermal field, an area featuring a dormant volcano in an active continental rift between the San Andreas fault and a spreading ridge of the East Pacific Rise of the Gulf of California.
The quake is one of a string of thousands of quakes shaking the area this year. The Cerro Prieto area alone has witnessed about a dozen small quakes in the past week ranging from 2.2 to 3.9 in magnitude.
Officials with San Diego police, San Diego County Sheriff's Department and the San Diego Fire-Rescue Department said they had received no immediate reports of damage from the latest quake.

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