A powerful earthquake southeast of Tijuana shook Southern California on Sunday afternoon, damaging buildings in northern Mexico and border cities in California and Arizona and rattling a seismically sophisticated population as far north as Los Angeles and Las Vegas.

Chandeliers swayed, homes shook and the earth seemed to slide under the feet of people emerging from Easter church services for well over a minute. Three strong aftershocks with magnitudes of about 5.0 jolted Baja California, Mexico, early Monday morning, according to the United States Geological Survey, but there were no reports of additional damage.

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