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Small quake shakes San Francisco area

24 Feb 2007 00:05:00 GMT
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SAN FRANCISCO, Feb 23 (Reuters) - A minor earthquake with a magnitude of 3.4 shook portions of downtown San Francisco and nearby Berkeley on Friday, but there were no immediate reports of injury or damage.

The quake struck at 3:46 p.m. (1146 GMT), the U.S. Geological Survey reported on its Web site. It was centered 2 miles (3 km) east-southeast of Berkeley at a depth of 7 miles (11 km).

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