Re: El Centro 5.1-did not happen - It's B-a-ck & it's a 4.9!
Posted by PennyB on April 04, 2010 at 22:59:43:

I think that a quake within the radius that is the length of the fault (did you get all that? I got it from Lucy Jones today.) is considered an aftershock? She was using a fifty mile estimate for "aftershocks" as opposed to quakes that might be triggered at some distance. My own personal feeling is that quakes stress the ground and cause other quakes---and don't much care what we call them.

Stay safe, everybody!