Local residents reported feeling an aftershock to the Duncan earthquake on at 7:38 a.m. on Friday, Nov. 21. The USGS posted the location for the event today, with a magnitude of 2.8. This is the first aftershock felt in the area for many weeks. The M=5.3 Duncan earthquake hit the eastern Arizona locale on June 28. [Right, orange star marks aftershock epicenter. Credit, USGS]AZGS has posted an article online describing the main shock and our deployment of a temporary portable seismic array to locate and measure the hundreds of aftershocks - http://azgeology.azgs.az.gov/article/seismic/2014/10/duncan-m53-earthquake-june-2014-and-temporary-seismic-network-deployment
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