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California rocked by TWO earthquakes in less than 3 hours

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US Geological Survey detected the first quake, a 2.5 magnitude, near San Francisco , striking less than three miles outside of Alamo .

The second hit in the Pacific Ocean , about 47 miles west of Petrolia .

No damages or injuries have been reported following the two quakes.

Experts are 'fairly confident that there could be a pretty large earthquake at some point in the next 30 years' The last major earthquakes on the San Andreas fault were in 1857 and 1906 .

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