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Wednesday, August 24, 2011

13 Aftershocks In Southern Colorado, 4 In Virginia

GOLDEN, Colo. - Colorado has been jostled with 13 aftershocks after Monday night's magnitude-5.3 earthquake struck just hours before a magnitude-5.8 temblor hit Virginia, earthquake monitors said Wednesday.

Geophysicist Amy Vaughan of the U.S. Geological Survey's National Earthquake Information Center in Golden, Colo., said the biggest aftershock in Colorado was a 3.9 temblor recorded just after 8 a.m. on Tuesday. She said there have been four aftershocks after the Virginia earthquake, the biggest a 4.2 just after 8 p.m. on Tuesday.

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