Recent earthquakes this 2014 were experienced by different parts of the world, with a recent update stating that at least two areas in California experienced moderate shaking while Indonesia got hit by a strong undersea quake.
According to CBS Local, San Juan Bautista in San Benito County, California was struck by an earthquake late Wednesday twice within a 10 minute span.
The U.S. Geological Survey's automated seismograph detected the grumbling twice: the first one is said to be a magnitude 3.8 while the second one was recorded to be a magnitude 4.2 quake.
The first bout hit the area at 10:21 p.m. at a depth of 3.9 miles while the second struck San Juan Bautista at 10:26 p.m. at a depth of 4.1 miles.
Local reports state that both quakes were also felt in Santa Clara County, San Jose, Morgan Hill and Gilroy.
The epicenter of the shaking was 2 miles south of San Juan Bautista, 11 miles northeast of Salinas and 7 miles south-west of Hollister.
A report from KSBW said that the quake was strongly felt in Hollister and Salinas, as residents complained that the shaking was pretty strong to be unnoticed.
As per an update from the USGS website, at least a thousand people have reported that they felt the first quake. In contrast, only 60 said that they experienced the second earthquake.
Fortunately, while there have been two bouts of the earthquakes 2014 in the Central Coast, no damages or injuries were documented by authorities.
On the other part of the world, specifically in Indonesia, a strong undersea earthquake was identified.
The quake reportedly struck off the coast of eastern Indonesia, but officials said that it was unlikely to trigger a tsunami, ABC News has learned.
The Indonesian quake was measured to be a magnitude 6.9 and it hit about 116 kilometers or 72 miles off Tobelo, which is a coastal town on Halmahera Island in North Maluku province.
The USGS said the shaking was centered at a depth of about 48 kilometers or 30 miles, but no reports of serious damage or injuries have been made.
In contrast to the USGS recording, the Indonesian Meteorology and Geophysics Agency claimed that the magnitude of the quake was at 6.7.
The ground-shaking phenomenon is not something new to a country that is situated at the Pacific "Ring of Fire."
In 2004, a strong earthquake off Sumatra lead to a massive tsunami that left at least 230,000 people dead in a number of countries belonging to the Pacific "Ring of Fire."
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