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Good morning and welcome to Kid News. I'm Tori. Today is Tuesday, August 13, 2024.

And we begin with Mother Nature rattling nerves

in Southern California.

Around noon yesterday, a 4.4 magnitude earthquake

rolled through Pasadena.

The shaking was felt as far south as San Diego

and as far north as Santa Barbara.

The Golden State is known for Temblers,

but this one is the third sizable one in the past two weeks.

A crowd of 47,000 people at Dodger Stadium

fell to 5.2 quake last Tuesday,

and days before that, a 4.9 jolt hit east of Barstow in the Central Valley.

No damage has been reported, and seismologists don't think the shakers are related.

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