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More than 150 small earthquakes were recorded this Saturday in a rural area near Lake Salton (Salton Sea, in English) in southern California, with the largest having a magnitude of 5.3, a seismologist told CNN from the US Geological Survey.
"There have been 152 earthquakes measuring all magnitudes," said seismologist Paul Caruso, speaking on the phone from Golden, Colorado.
Caruso said the area is not densely populated and has been known to have "swarms in the past."
A CNN team in Orange County reported that they did not feel any of the quakes.
The quakes, which ranged from 2.5 to 5.3 in magnitude, occurred in Calipatria, just south of Lake Salton along the San Andreas fault, the USGS map shows.
Calipatria is about 30 miles north of the Mexican border and about 140 miles east of San Diego.
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Here's how intense the shaking was for people closest to the epicenter: pic.twitter.com/eHk9y1c8t7
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Two earthquakes of magnitude 5.9 struck the Pacific Ocean approximately 143 and 157 kilometers west of the coastal city of Gold Beach, Oregon, after 1 a.m. PT on Friday, the USGS reported.
At least four earthquakes ranging in magnitudes from 3.9 to 5.9 occurred in that area in recent hours, according to the USGS.
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These have been the 10 deadliest earthquakes in the world: 70,000 people died - or were presumed dead - on May 31, 1970, when a 7.9-magnitude earthquake struck Chimbote, in Peru.
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The 72,000 people who died during the 7.2 magnitude earthquake, which Messina (Italy) experienced on December 28, 1908, accounted for more than 40% of the city's population.
The earthquake caused a tsunami and was felt throughout Sicily.
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86,000 people died on October 8, 2005, when a 7.6 magnitude earthquake struck northern Pakistan.
The greatest damage occurred in parts of Kashmir, where entire villages were destroyed.
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The 7.9 magnitude earthquake, which struck eastern Sichuan, China on May 12, 2008, killed 87,587 people and was felt in parts of Bangladesh, Taiwan, Thailand and Vietnam.
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A statue of the former President of Turkmenistan Saparmurad Niyazov stands in front of the monument in Ashgabat for the earthquake of October 5, 1948, which with a magnitude of 7.3 killed 110,000 people.
Virtually every brick building in the city collapsed.
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A 7.9 earthquake in the Tokyo-Yokohama area of Japan killed 142,800 people.
The earthquake, which occurred on September 1, 1923, caused firestorms and a tsunami.
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An estimated 200,000 people were killed when a 7.8-magnitude earthquake struck Haiyuan District, China, on December 16, 1920. Here, Muslims pray in front of a mosque in Haiyuan in 2007.
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227,898 people died on December 26, 2004, when a 9.1 magnitude earthquake struck Sumatra.
This was the third largest earthquake measured since 1900. Almost two million people were displaced by the earthquake and tsunami that it caused.
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On July 27, 1976, a 7.5 magnitude earthquake killed an estimated 242,769 people in Tangshan, China.
Unofficial estimates consider a much higher figure, which was perhaps 655,000 deaths.
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A 7.0 magnitude earthquake struck Haiti on January 12, 2010. Official estimates put the death toll at 316,000 people, but other figures suggest there were fewer casualties: perhaps 230,000 or less.
More than a million people were displaced.
CNN's Alta Spells contributed to this report.
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