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A series of small earthquakes hit near the Big Bear area in San Bernardino County starting late Saturday night into Sunday morning.

The earthquakes — which maxed out at magnitude 3.5 before sunrise Sunday — had an epicenter in the San Bernardino Mountains about 4 miles north of Big Bear Airport.

The epicenter was about 29 miles northeast of downtown San Bernardino, 27 miles southeast of Hesperia and 40 miles northwest of Palm Springs.

The first earthquake was magnitude 3.3, which struck at 11:15 p.m. Saturday, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.

It was followed by a magnitude 3.4 at 2:51 a.m. The magnitude 3.5 followed at 3:41 a.m.

An aftershock of magnitude 2.5 was reporte

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